Rabbi Meir Kahane VS Jerome Segal part 3 of 5

Rabbi Meir David Kahane zt"l

http://kahane.org/

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Kahane was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1932 to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Rabbi Yechezkel Sharaga Kahane, was born in Safed, Ottoman Palestine (in present-day Israel), in 1905, and went to study in Polish and Czech yeshiva religious schools. Later, he emigrated to the USA, where he served as rabbi of two congregations. Meir received his rabbinical ordination from the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and earned a B.A. in political science from Brooklyn College. He was fully conversant with the Talmud and Tanakh (Jewish Bible), and worked as a pulpit rabbi and teacher in the 1960s. During this period, he tutored folk musician Arlo Guthrie for his Bar Mitzvah. Subsequently, he earned a JD from New York Law School and an L.L.M from New York University Law School.
As a teenager, he became an ardent admirer of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who was a frequent guest in his parents' home, and joined the Betar (Brit Trumpeldor) youth wing of Revisionist Zionism. He was active in protests against Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary who blocked the immigration of Nazi death camp survivors to Palestine and opposed Israel's independence in favor of creating a Hashemite Arab monarchy dependent on British power. Kahane organized mass rallies in New York against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting Zionist activists and curbing Jewish immigration to Israel. He was active in the "Free Soviet (Russian) Jewry" movement and pushed for the release of Russian refuseniks and their resettlement in Israel.
In the 1960s, Kahane was an editor of an American-Jewish weekly, Brooklyn's The Jewish Press, and was a regular correspondent for that paper.
In 1956, Kahane married Libby, with whom he had four children

Maryland School of Public Policy
Jerome Segal

Research Scholar

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Expertise
Israeli-Palestinian relations
Dr. Jerome Segal is a leading expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations and was one of the first American Jews to meet with the leadership of the PLO. He is the author of Creating the Palestinian State: A Strategy for Peace, and Agency and Alienation. His numerous articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other national publications. Segal also works with the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland, where he is Director of the Jerusalem Project, which has tested the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Palestinians about Jerusalem in order to identify options for resolving the city's final status. His CISSM monographs on that subject, The Status of Jerusalem in the Eyes of Israeli Jews, The Status of Jerusalem in the Eyes of Palestinians, and Is Jerusalem Negotiable? have been revised and published as Negotiating Jerusalem (SUNY Press 2000) with co-authors Elihu Katz, Shlomit Levy, and Nader Said. His book, Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living (1999) received national acclaim. His most recent book, Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible (2007), has been hailed a groundbreaking work.

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[gertzadek]

Rav Kahane was a prophet. How sad they still don't see it.

[BinyaminBenMeir]

Kahane makes some Excellent Points