Writer: Rabbi David Saperstein

June 25, 2010
4:00 am

Stopping torture needs unswerving commitment

A recent report by Physicians for Human Rights has found that in the period after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government engaged military and civilian health professionals in “human research and experimentation on prisoners in U.S. custody.” Appalled by these findings, a number of religious leaders representing the National Religious Coalition Against Torture have joined […]

By Rabbi David Saperstein

December 17, 2009
5:00 am

â€˜America deserves betterâ€™: A call for health-care reform

Providing quality, universal health care as a core societal obligation is a 2,000-year old command in the Jewish tradition. It speaks across millennia to us today. Consider the words of the Jewish tradition on health care: â€¢ “Whoever is in pain, lead him to the physician.” (Baba Kamma 46B) â€¢ “It is obligatory from the […]

By Rabbi David Saperstein

December 26, 2008
5:00 am

A Sabbath to â€˜light the world with justiceâ€™ and compassion

Nations around the world are struggling with an economic crisis and wrestling with the increasing effects of poverty. Nowhere is this challenge more acute than in the developing world, where the grip of extreme poverty continues unabated. While domestic economic problems make headlines, global poverty seldom does. We must address an economic catastrophe that is […]

By Rabbi David Saperstein