FAREWELL TO A PEACEMAKER : Orange County Voices:

“It was all there. . . . We thought it was rhetoric. They meant it, and we must stop it.”

--Rabbi Arnold Rachlis of University Synagogue in Irvine

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“This goes against all the teachings of the Torah and our sages. . . . This is unforgivable.”

--Rabbi Yitzchok Newman of Hebrew Academy in Westminster

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“For me, it’s been devastating that a Jew killed another.”

--Clarita Karlin, 65, of Laguna Hills

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“He’d given everything to the state of Israel.”

--Murray Lobel, 31, of Irvine, who once met Rabin

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“Don’t say the day will come. You--we--must bring that day. It’s not a dream.”

--Rabbi Stephen Einstein of B’Nai Tzedek of Fountain Valley