Our hearts cry out: Iyad Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with special needs was shot dead by police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City this Shabbat because they “thought he was terrorist”. It seems that the real intents of the new Minister of Internal Security are seeping down to the police officer in the street, who understands the signals being transmitted from above: that he or she is allowed to and expected to shoot at anyone who they identify as “suspicious.”

Coinci...dentally or not, this shooting parallels another [also all too common] case of police brutality in the United States in which an American police officer, cruelly, using excessive force, killed a suspect, George Floyd, who was in custody by kneeling on his neck for an extended period of time [despite pleas by witnesses that he stop and despite the desperate cries of the victim who begged for the officer to stop as his life withered away under the cop’s knee].

Rabbis for Human Rights – Shavuot Edition

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Blessings for Health and Comfort to all in mourning
Rabbi Michael Marmur - The Calling of Shavuot - Standing Again at Sinai & Standing for Justice...
Link to Shavuot Study Material By RHR’s Education Dept.
Rabbi Yehiel Greniman A Word of Torah for Shavuot – Parashat Naso
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