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Article: Division remain after Rabin's assassination. (relations among Israeli and American Jews following the assassination of Israeli Pres Yitzhak Rabin)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 22, 1995
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The shock of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination has, at least momentarily, drawn together American Jews normally divided by theology and politics. "It was like a death in the family," said Rabbi Barry Weinstein of Temple B'nai Israel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "When that happens, people forget their differences to grieve." Nevertheless, Rabin's assassination has provided stark evidence of the depth to which the Middle East peace process has divided Jews in Israel and, to a lesser but still significant degree, in the U.S.
Over the past two years, the rhetoric emanating from New York, the center of American Jewish life and the home of nearly every influential ...