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In this year's Rennert Forum lecture, "Created in God's Image:
Intersections of Judaism, Gender, and Human Rights," Rabbi Rachel
Kahn-Troster '01 reflects on her work as a human rights activist,
mobilizing the Jewish community on campaigns against US-sponsored
torture and modern slavery. Rabbi Kahn-Troster has worked tirelessly to
bring about change in US foreign and domestic policy and to educate the
public about the reality of torture and detainee treatment as a moral
issue. In organizing across lines of faith and politics, she explores
questions of how Judaism reacts to extreme violations of human dignity,
what it means to recognize the sacredness of the Other, and the
imperative to remember the real faces lost behind headlines. Rabbi
Rachel Kahn-Troster is Director of Education and Outreach for Rabbis for
Human Rights-North America, where she directs campaigns against
state-sponsored torture and modern slavery. She was ordained in 2008 as
a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was a student
activist and leader. She is a noted speaker, teacher, and writer on
Judaism and human rights. Her writing has appeared in Sh'ma;
Conservative Judaism; several anthologies, including the recent Jewish
Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice, and on the web. Rabbi
Kahn-Troster was also a 2009-2010 writing fellow for the American Jewish
World Service. She serves on the boards of the National Religious
Campaign Against Torture and Hazon, a Jewish environmental
organization. Her lecture is introduced by Elizabeth Castelli.
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movements, how organizing today compares to that by previous
generations, intersections between feminism and other approaches to
social justice, and how to build coalitions...
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