Scholar in Residence Shabbat Service with Choir and scholar Rabbi David Forman "Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights: The Application of Jewish Values to a Jewish State."

Or Hadah's 2010 Ben and Joan Dickstein Scholar in Residence, Rabbi David Forman, will be speaking at Shabbat evening services on "Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights: The Application of Jewish Values to a Jewish State." 

Rabbi Forman is a founding member of Rabbis for Human Rights. The program is free of charge and open to the public; oneg to follow.  Please note Rabbi Forman's other presentations throughout the weekend:

• March 20 at 9:00 AM - "Israel, Zion, Jerusalem in Jewish Texts."
• March 20 at 7:30 PM - "Morality and Security - Reconciling Democratic Principles with Political Realities."
• March 21 at 9:00 AM - "Personal Reflections on Aliyah and Why I am Still a Zionist."
   

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Rabbi David J. Forman moved to Israel over thirty-five years ago. As the former director of the Israel office in Jerusalem of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has been instrumental in building programs that bridge the Israel-Diaspora divide. Rabbi Forman has been active in human rights and peace movements in Israel. He was the founding chairperson of the Jerusalem Council for Soviet Jewry (1973), chairperson of Interns for Peace (1984-1986) and founding chairperson of Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights (1988-1992), on whose behalf he accepted the prestigious Knesset Peace Prize (1993). He served as a deputy commander in the Israeli artillery corps, receiving a medal for distinguished service. Writing regularly for both the Israeli Hebrew and English press on social, political and religious issues (he is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post), he has lectured internationally on Human Rights and Social Justice (Sweden, Norway, Senegal, Great Britain, Jordan, Canada, Ukraine, Russia, Bylerussia, Greece, Japan, United States), including as the keynote speaker at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. A frequent scholar-in-residence, he has authored four books: Over My Dead Body – Some Grave Questions for God (2005), Fifty Ways to be Jewish (2002), Jewish Schizophrenia in the Land of Israel (2000) and Israel – On Broadway: Diaspora Jewry – Off-Broadway (1998). He is married with four children and seven grandchildren, all who live in Israel.