Habonim Dror Alumni

Look ma! We're famous! From the latest issue of Iton Habonim - http://habonimdror.net/iton/14/iton14.html

Thanks to everyone who came to our zoom discussion this past Sunday. It was an emotional and fascinating discussion with 5 members of Habonim Dror North America Workshop 45 about their experience of being in Israel the year Rabin was assassinated. For those who missed the event, you can watch the conversation via this youtube link - https://youtu.be/e1CGhJi0Bu4 Thanks again to Ami Lipman, Danya Sarah Cohen, Alexis Kort, Avital Peres Rachmilevitch and Robin Merkel for participating!

Register here to join this event, where 5 members of workshop 45 will discuss their experiences of living in in Israel the year Rabin was assassinated and how it has impacted them since. http://bit.ly/HDNAAlumniRabin

"Two minutes of unity in an era of so little." That's what Habonim Dror North America Workshop participant Robin Merkel wrote in 1995, witnessing Israel in the aftermath of the peace rally where Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, z"l, was assassinated. Attend our event on November 1 at 2pm EST to read more of Workshop 45's letters and hear what they think today, 25 years later. #70YearsofWorkshop. [Excerpt of Robin's letter below] Registration: bit.ly/HDNAAlumniRabin Face...book Event: www.facebook.com/events/341729933918128 . . . . The next day, on a bus going down to kikar Yizchak Rabin, the air raid sirens went off to mark the funeral. Suddenly the stillness was acknowledged: a bus stopping, everyone jumping out of their seats and into the aisle to stand at attention. It was an unforgettable moment, a reminder of the unity in Israel and the Jewish people that then and now seems so tenuous. It seems almost out of place now, the siren, two minutes of unity in an era of so little. Israel now seems to be moving fast, faster than ever before, since the moment of that funeral, peace moving onwards, and possible upwards at an incredible rate. Some things now seem almost backwards -- is the homeland of Jews all over the world becoming a homeland for just those that agree with it? Never before has Israel stood divided along such extreme lines, and sometimes it seems that some of the reactions to the assassination, once the initial shock wore off, have been only more divisive. Why does Peres move so fast? The people who hated Rabin's policies still remain, but they are only a little more afraid to speak out. Does everyone in Israel even want peace? Sometimes the answer to that question appears to be no.

"May his life be a bridge for us to peace." That's what a Habonim Dror North America Workshop participant wrote in 1995, after the peace rally where Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, z"l, was assassinated. Attend our event on November 1 at 2pm EST to read more of their letters and hear what the members of Workshop 45 think today, 25 years later. #70YearsofWorkshop Registration: bit.ly/HDNAAlumniRabin Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/341729933918128

We're excited to let you know about this exciting graphic novel, full of Jewish stories and created by Mat Tonti, Moshnik, Workshop 44, entitled The Book Of Secrets. It follows two siblings as they explore the stories of a mysterious book sent to them by their missing grandparents. Will they find their Grandparents before danger finds them? And are they reading the stories, or are they in the stories?! Click here for the ZOOM link: https://zoom.us/my/gottesman