I recently had the profound honor of representing thousands of members L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty at a powerful gathering of Israeli and Jewish human rights groups for a webinar focused on the proposed bill to impose the death penalty on non-Jewish terrorists. Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel (RHR), T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and The Association for Civil Rights in Israel hosted the online Hanukkah event, which was entitled “We Will Drive out the Darkness by Increasing the Light.” Rabbi Avi Dabush, the Executive Director of RHR, and Rabbi Kobi Weiss of RHR – who passionately spoke against the bill in the Knesset recently – were joined by Attorney Elza Bugnet of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the Executive Director of T’ruah for a most enlightening conversation that framed the conversation about the death penalty within Jewish law and the lighting of the Hanukkah candles.

The title of the webinar recalled the famous quote by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his 1963 work Loving your........

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