Kenneth Bob
By Kenneth Bob
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Opinion Yitzhak Rabin: Inspiration for Israel’s youth.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated 25 years ago this week, was an unlikely hero for young people. He was a 73-year-old man with a gruff military style who spoke…
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Opinion The Wrong People Shouting
When I was a teenager, the late Phil Ochs was a folk-singing hero of mine. In his classic song, “Love Me, I’m a Liberal,” he skewered armchair liberals who talked a good game, but wouldn’t go as far as their more radical comrades. This attitude, of course, appealed to many in my generation as we…
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