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Sydney, Australia:
From Georgia Snow, Federal Rosh Chinuch, based in Sydney: For the
Rabin commemoration in Sydney, we held a senior beyachad peula Frankfurt, Germany:
(years 9 ‐12). Our main aim of the peula was to not just to From Orly Raibstein,
commemorate Rabin as a person, P.M or soldier, but more so, to Madricha in Frankfurt
look at the issues that his death raised; issues that can relate to us snif: On November 8th
and our society now. We started the peula with a video of Rabin and we, the ZJD, decided to
his life, followed by a museum of articles and pictures for chanichim dedicate the day to
to read about who he was, some of his major achievements, and his Itzchak Rabin, since the
life and his assassination. We then split off into small 'intellectual memorial day of his
chuggim' groups where chanichim could choose to look at issues assassination took place
such as democracy and violence, incitement and hatred, the secular in the previous week. We
and religious divide, how different groups commemorate Rabin, and decided to prepare the
the controversy that surrounds Yigal Amir today. Chanichim in different
We ended the peula with a small tekes. Peulot. My Peula, for
instance (I have Kvutza
Garinim, age 12‐14),
consisted of the
confrontation with the
question of who we
define as Zionist.
After Peula we had a
Mifkad, during which we
summed up the results of
the Peulot and held a
memorial ceremony.
After Mifkad, when we
normally have Chugim,
we had a Kumsitz and
sang songs like Shir
Lashalom. Our Shlicha
Nomi told the Chanichim
in her perspective how
she saw the assassination,
since she had been there.
All in all it was a very
emotional and
informative day, which
gave the Chanichim and
also us, the Madrichim, a
deeper understanding
about the background of
the assassination.