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Article: Don't Blame Jewish Law For Murder Of Rabin
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- The Jewish Week
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Emanuel Rackman
The Jewish Week
11-01-1996
Don't Blame Jewish Law For Murder Of Rabin.
The first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin makes us mindful that many Jews may still believe that it was Jewish law that inspired the horrendous murder.
Indeed, it is asked in many circles how one can advocate the use of Jewish law in the young state if it can produce such a disaster? Jewish secularists, who have always denigrated Jewish law, have now found a new battleground as they refuse to admit that it was the atmosphere of hatred which they generated that was responsible for the tragedy.
Even the results of the national elections - the resounding defeat of Shimon Peres with 55 ...
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