HUMAN RIGHTS SHABBAT AT TEMPLE HILLEL B’NAI TORAH
Saturday, December 14, 2019
10 am Shabbat service in the Sanctuary
With a participatory reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
11 am Family Service in the Knopf Social Hall with Rabbi Barbara Penzner
(first through fifth graders
Tot Shabbat in the chapel with Rabbi Shoshana Friedman
(infants through kindergarten and parents)
11:30 am Rabbi Penzner will speak on
Vayishlach: How Jacob and I became Defenders of Human Rights
12:00 Lunch and Presentation
Learn from a distinguished panel of activists who have seen it all
Joshua Rubenstein, of Amnesty International served as Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International for 37 years. He has also written and edited ten books, a number of them about Soviet-Jewish history. His most recent book, The Last Days of Stalin, has just been published in Hebrew.
Sherman Teichman is the Founding Director (Emeritus since 2016) of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, which he led for more than three decades. Mr. Teichman is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has had a distinguished career working on diverse issues including international terrorism, the Israel – Palestine dispute, 21st century conflict, civil – military relations, and global health and security. Mr. Teichman is a board member and strategic adviser for several organizations including the Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, the Human Rights Foundation, Refuge Point, Combatants for Peace, VII Photo Foundation, and the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development.
Jane Rocamora, of the Center for Justice and Accountability is Senior Attorney and Clinical Supervisor at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic of Greater Boston Legal Services, has spent more than two decades litigating civil, criminal, immigration and human rights cases. She worked for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Program in Rwanda investigating genocide and massive human rights violations and collaborating in the efforts to rebuild a decimated judicial system. In 2000, Ms. Rocamora was appointed Acting Chief of the Judicial Support Section in Kosovo of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She was a Co-Founder of the International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, which originally focused on establishing criminal defense principles and practices at the international criminal tribunals. She previously worked with the Coalition on Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations in Montreal, Canada, which focused on ensuring accountability for gender crimes within prosecutions at the international criminal tribunals.
Susannah Sirkin, a longtime member of Temple Hillel B’nai Torah, is director of policy and a senior advisor at Physicians for Human Rights, where she has worked since 1987. She oversees PHR’s policy engagement, including with the United Nations, domestic and international justice systems, and human rights coalitions.