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Tag: Human Rights

0 Education Gender/Identity

How Not to Teach About Islam, Harvard Edition

Liel Leibovitz in Tablet · 25 Jan 2016

The article critiques Professor Leila Ahmed's Harvard course, "Islam, Gender, Sexualities and Empire," suggesting it may not adequately address human rights abuses faced by Muslim women.

0 Politics Israel

Protocols of the Elders of Whom?

Promised Podcast · 30 Jan 2014

In a dialogue between Allison, Don, Eilon, and Noah, the discussion revolves around the legacy of Shulamit Aloni in promoting rights discourse, the connection between the Israeli occupation and global anti-Semitism as questioned by Minister Naftali Bennett, and the perceived decline of the Israeli political center.

0 Ethics Philosophy

Two or Three Concepts of Dignity

Alan Mittleman in Jewish Review of Books · 12 Jun 2013

Dignity, a central concept in human rights and moral discourse, is explored through various lenses in Jewish and Western thought.

0 History Israel

Let My People Go

Yehudah Mirsky in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

The book "Let My People Go" by Gal Beckerman chronicles the struggle for Soviet Jewry from the 1960s to the early 1990s, detailing how individuals like Natan Sharansky, with support from Jews worldwide and non-Jewish allies, fought against Soviet oppression to secure the freedom of Soviet Jews.

0 Politics Ethics

Why Obama Should Read Trilling

Yoav Fromer in Tablet · 5 Jul 2012

The article discusses the moral dilemma and inaction of the Obama Administration in response to the escalating violence in Syria, drawing parallels to the concept of the "morality of inertia" as explained by the Jewish literary critic Lionel Trilling in his essay "The Morality of Inertia."

0 Politics History

Sohrab Ahmari in Tablet · 22 Dec 2011

During the 1970s, American Jewish activists successfully pressured Congress to pass the Jackson-Vanik amendment, linking trade with the Soviet Union to the emigration rights of Russian Jews, thereby influencing American foreign policy and emphasizing human rights over national sovereignty.