FACT SHEET tide that he attended her fu- neral, and in the year after she died he would sometimes place roses on her grave. There was no mention of the fact that they were lovers. "I wrote it in such a way that I knew he could manipulate the truth and explain to his wife and children that there was no truth to the rumors about him and Evans," Kaufman confessed. Arthur Gelb, who in 1990 retired as the managing edi- tor of the Times, told me that the paper knew a lot about the peccadilloes of powerful men in the 1960s, but it was a more innocent time "when a lot of sexual gossip was floating around that didn't make it into the paper," said Gelb. "Should papers have re- ported that President Ken- nedy was having sexual liai- sons? There were reporters who knew, but it was never reported. I guess in those days a person's sexual life was his own business." If the paper of record had published all it knew about Kahane, a self-righteous, Or- thodox rabbi who constantly moralized about personal re- lationships, then perhaps both he and the JDL would have been destroyed. The Times skittishness, however, let Kahane dodge what al- most certainly would have been a barrage of criticism. "We could have changed the history of Israel" had we pub- licized the affair, Richard Se- vero says today. "I wonder how many of his Orthodox supporters would have con- tinued to follow him . . . if they knew the man was a charlatan?" ❑ Reprinted from The False Prophet by Robert I. Fried- man, published by Lawrence Hill Books. Copyright Robert I. Friedman - Sharing Food to Relieve Hunger - Mission Forgotten Harvest is a non-profit prepared Origin The Mazon Council of Metropolitan Detroit founded Forgotten Harvest to address the problem of hunger on the local level. 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"It was Kahane who sought to make sex a politi- cal issue" when he advo- cated legislation in Israel that would have made it il- legal for Jews and non-Jews to have sexual relations. "And here he was, an Or- thodox rabbi with four kids, having an affair with a gentile woman." No major publishing house would touch the Kahane book, which was published by Lawrence Hill Books, a small company. Publishers offered a variety of reasons for their rejection of the manuscript, according to Mr. Friedman, from fear of libel — and even violence — to reluctance to an- tagonize American Jews. Mr. Friedman says his book sold 6,200 copies in its first three months, which he calls a modest success. Will Meir Kahane, who was removed from the Knesset by an Israeli law forbidding the incitement of racism and who is now fac- ing trial for sedition, re- emerge as a major force in Israeli political life? "Knowing how smart he is and how much energy he has and how obsessed he is with reaching his ambitions, I won't count him out until he physically passes from the scene," noted Mr. Friedman. Rabbi Kahane, he said, has already announced his intention of running for a Knesset seat in the next election. "It may be under the banner of Kach, it may be under a brand new par- ty," Mr. Friedman said. "He said he's going to create a political platform that he claims will be totally based on Halachah, that will be airtight, and that will make it very difficult for the high court of Israel to ban him as a racist demagogue. So we'll see." ❑ 31275 Northwestern Hwy., Ste. 243 Farmington Hills, MI 48018 Next time you feed your face, think about your heart. Go easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. The change'II do you good. American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 129