Fellowship Programme
What does the RCFP entail?
- Five knowledge based evening sessions looking at current human rights issues.
- A trip to European city.
- Four skills based evening sessions looking at the tools needed to make positive change.
- A project using all of the above knowledge and skills to create change.
Who is the RCFP for?
The programme has no fixed age limit – the cohort benefits from a real mixture of age and experience. If you are interested in increasing your knowledge of human rights and Jewish visions of a just society, the RCFP is right for you.
What are the programme’s objectives?
- To deepen and broaden participants’ knowledge and understanding of human rights principles and Jewish visions of a just society – through the study of Jewish experience and values and contemporary international human rights issues.
- To galvanise a movement of Jewish social activists who will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to promote social justice and human rights in the UK.
- To create a group of deeply committed human rights advocates who are actively involved in René Cassin’s campaigning and mobilisation work
Religious observance. - René Cassin is a pluralist organisation, and we welcome applicants from all levels of religious observance. If you observe Shabbat or any level of kashrut, please let us know and we will be delighted to accommodate this.
Meet the 2020 Cohort of René Cassin AJA Fellows
Meet the 2020 fellows and read their bios here
Day Three – Jewish, Roma and LGBTQI intersectionality
Bella Lever is “particularly struck by the interaction and overlap” between the Jewish, LGBTQI and GRT organisations that the Fellows encounter on Day Three.
Day Four – Charity Taxi Project
Sam Alston reflects on the Fellows’ fourth day in Budapest.
Meet the 2018 Cohort of René Cassin AJA Fellows
Meet our 2018 Cohort of exceptional Fellows.
Discrimination & hate crime – issues uniting Jews and Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
Fellow Talia Blank reflects on the programme’s fourth session on discrimination and hate crime – “in 2016 – 2017, 80,000 hate crimes were recorded by the Police in England and Wales”…
Asylum, refuge & detention
Samantha Linfield discusses the programme’s third session on indefinite detention, led by the Director of Detention Action.
Modern slavery is insidious
It’s in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the IT we rely on – Bella Lever reflects on the Fellowship Programme’s second session.
From Magna Carta to the 2010 Equality Act – the opening session of 2018’s Fellowship Programme
Lauren Chaplin discusses session one – introductions and a crash course on human rights with Doughty Street barrister and RightsInfo founder Adam Wagner.
Our 2017 René Cassin Fellows
This year we have six brilliant Fellows examining human rights through a Jewish lens.