10 am Shabbat service in the Sanctuary- With a participatory reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
11:00- Children’s Services (Learn More)
11:30 am Rabbi Penzner will speak on- Vayishlach: How Jacob and I became Defenders of Human Rights
12:00 Lunch and Presentation: HUMAN RIGHTS and HUMAN WRONGS
Lunch is sponsored by the Larry M. Diamond fund
Learn from a distinguished panel of activists who have seen it all:
Joshua Rubenstein, of Amnesty International
Sherman Teichman, of the Harvard Kennedy SchoolCarr Center for Human Rights Policy
Jane Rocamora, of the Center for Justice and Accountability
Moderated by Susannah Sirkin, of Physicians for Human Rights
About the speakers:
Joshua Rubenstein 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, 21 st 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 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 the 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.