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Violent Life

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The JDL
Brooklyn. rooklyn'
s ethnic
Born Martin David makeup began to change,
Kahane in New York on and black-Jewish relations
Aug. 1, 1932, Meir Kahane became badly strained.
When there were tensions
aTew up in Brooklyn, the
between Jews and Italians
first-born son of a respected
in Brooklyn, Rabbi Kahane
Talmudist, Rabbi Charles
became a friend of the Col-
Kahane, and a Latvian im-
ombo crime family. "He me-
migrant mother.
diated between the two sides
As a youth, Meir was a
and prevented turmoil," said
member of Betar, the mill-
tant youth movement of Mr. Cohen.
Rabbi Kahane also started
Menachem Begin's Herut
camps
in the mountains t o
party. In 1947, at the age of
help teach Jewish youth t o
smashed the car
15
,
defend themselves.
windows of visiting British
In December 1969, follow-
Foreign Secretary Ernest
ing a meeting of Jewish
Bevin, in protest over the re-
leaders over the issue of
strictive immigration poli-
Soviet Jewry, the JDL
cies of the British Mandate
became involved with the
in Palestine.
issue on a more militant
He served jail time for that
level than other Jewish
deed, he said, and later
groups.
estimated he spent a total of
In early 1971, several JDL
three years in jails in the
youths received priso n
United States.
Rabbi Kahane was ordain- sentences for bombing the
ed after studying at the offices of Jewish entertain-
Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, ment impresario Sol Hurok,
next door to the Young who had booked a Soviet
Israel of Ocean Parkway, ballet group in a New York
where his funeral was held. hall. A secretary was killed
He attended Brooklyn Col- in the bombing,
Following his move to
lege at night, where he was
Israel in 1971, Kahane
considered a brilliant stu-
dent. He obtained a law founded the Kach ("Thus")
party, whose platform called
degree but did not pass the
for the transfer of Arabs out
bar exam.
of Israel.
After his ordination, Rabbi
A high point in his polit-
Kahane served for two years
at the Howard Beach Jewish ical career came in 1984,
when he was elected to the
Center in Queens.
He also began to use the Knesset on the strength of
name "Michael King" and his advocacy of transferring
reportedly worked for the Arabs out of Israel. His
rimary support came from
Central Intelligence Agency p
to promote the Vietnam War Sephardic Jews, many of
and the Federal Bureau of whom had emigrated from
e s.
Arab countries.
Investigation as an under-
1988, on
But in O
cover informant,
of
elections
when
the eve
penetrating radical political
Kach was expected to make
groups.
gains in the Knesset, the
Later, at another syn-
party was banned on the
agogue in Queens where he
grounds that it violated a
sometimes filled in as rabbi,
Rabbi Kahane organized 1985 law — aimed specifical-
ly at Rabbi Kahane — be-
synagogue members to
cause of its "Nazi-like,"
ensnare anti-Semitic van-
dais at a Jewish cemetery "racist" and "undemocratic
that had been vandalized the positions."
This report was compiled by
previous Halloween.
Gary Rosenblatt, based on
Soon afterward, he found
Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
ed the JDL, which in the
reports from New Yorh and
beginning was concerned
Tel Aviv.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1990

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The Faithful Mourn
Kahane In Jerusalem

Nows■""'"'
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Assistant Editor

erusalem — Vowing to
avenge the blood of
their murdered leader,
Kach supporters wept and
threw themselves on the car
carrying the body of Meir
Kahane as the Jewish

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Defense League founder was
laid to rest Wednesday in
Jerusalem.
Thousands of Jews lined the
streets and gathered at the
Yeshivah of the Jewish Idea,
founded by Rabbi Kahane,
where a three-hour memorial
ceremony was held.
By early afternoon, a crowd