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.