Healthy Insanity

Rabbi Arik Ascherman with Jordan Valley residents under threat of expulsion from their lands.

“We have to learn to speak Jewish,” said the activist rabbi.

We were gathered in an Upper West Side living room to hear from Rabbi Arik Ascherman about the state of human rights work in Israel/Palestine after the elections. Rav Arik, an American born Reform rabbi has been living in Jerusalem and doing the work for several decades. He ran Rabbis for Human Rights for 21 years, and for the last six has been running Torat Tzedek; The…