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  Have we learned nothing from our most divided time?

  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. I remember the Shabbat of the murder as if it were yesterday. At that time, I lived on Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev as a foreign resident. I was…

  By Shmuel Yilma

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  What Rabin can teach us about fighting corona: Without civil discourse, we are lost.

  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. For young people in Israel today, the assassination of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin is simply another event on the timeline of history. Those…

  By Aliza Bloch Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Rabin’s Jewish-Arab alliance was a democratic revolution. We must reclaim it.

  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 brought about two fundamental changes in age-old conventions in Jewish Israeli society. In 1993, the Government of Israel recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative…

  By Odeh Basharat Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read

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  A legacy of “us,” not “them”

  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. Where were you when Rabin was assassinated? Everyone who remembers the murder remembers where they were when it happened. It was an event so shattering that the…

  By Michal Zamir Nov 3, 2020 | 4 min read
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  We are on the precipice of a violent divide. We must embrace those we disagree with.

  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. As someone who has devoted his entire career to strengthening Jewish Peoplehood, I am deeply troubled by the polarization in our political and religious discourse. The murder…

  By Zack Bodner Nov 3, 2020 | 2 min read
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  Religious fundamentalism is still our biggest threat

  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. In April 1948, David Ben Gurion approached a young lawyer, Mordechai Beham, and asked him to urgently prepare the first draft of the Declaration of Independence of…

  By Eran Baruch Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Looking back, I see how far my haredi community has come

  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. I was seven years old when the three shots were fired in Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. I was an ultra-Orthodox, Jerusalemite girl, dressed in…

  By Avigayil Heilbronn Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read
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  We must be the heirs of Rabin’s dream

  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. “When God returned the exiles of Zion, we were like dreamers” (Psalms 126:1) On the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, I find…

  By Lauren Holtzblatt Nov 3, 2020 | 2 min read
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  We are not the ones who have forgotten what it means to be Jewish

  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. On November 4th, 1995, I really wanted to go to the “Yes to Peace, No to Violence” demonstration. As an 11-year-old religious, Orthodox, Jerusalemite boy, I felt…

  By Yaya Fink Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Rabin’s legacy is not peace. It’s occupation.

  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. For many, Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy is one of peace. For me, living in the West Bank under occupation without basic human and civil rights, it is the…

  By Issa Amro Nov 3, 2020 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Kenneth Bob Nov 3, 2020 | 2 min read