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The Human Rights Haggadah helps you use the seder to discuss and learn about human rights.
- What human rights have roots in Jewish sources? Where are there conflicts? When a verse of the Torah or statement of the Rabbis goes against human rights values, what do we do?
- What rights can we agree are absolute and universal? Are there some that cannot apply all the time? Do some rights take precedence over others?
- Some human rights concern governmental policies and the military. But what human rights principles affect decisions we make each day?
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