Our President and Global CEO, Yael Eckstein, reflects on the loss of Charlie Kirk one year later in an op-ed with Townhall and what his legacy means for people of faith:
A year ago, I received the kind of news that stops you in your tracks.
Charlie Kirk had been murdered.
I had sat with Charlie just two months earlier. What was supposed to be a short meeting became an hour and a half of conversation. We spoke about Israel. We spoke about faith. We spoke about the responsibility that comes with having a voice in a world where words can either build bridges or tear people apart.
But most of all, we spoke about the values we shared.
Today, on the first anniversary of Charlie’s death, I find myself thinking about how I knew him on a personal level — as a young man who believed deeply that his faith required him to act.
Charlie understood something that Christians and Jews have understood for generations: faith is not simply something we hold in our hearts. It is something we live. It means standing up against hatred. It means defending human dignity when it is under attack. It means refusing to remain silent when Jewish people are targeted because they are Jewish, or when Christians are persecuted because they believe in Jesus.