Meir Kahane
Join Samuel Goldman, J.J. Kimche, and Sara Yael Hirschhorn for a discussion about Kahane, Taubes, and the enduring troubles of American Jewish liberalism.
As 1970s America unraveled, both radicals posed “uncomfortable questions for comfortable Jews.” What did they ask, and are conditions ripe for similar figures to emerge?
The study of the Jewish Defense League’s founder suffers from “methodological, structural, and factual” flaws.
A misspelled signature and an uncharacteristic rebuke.
Raising the electoral threshold paved the way for Otzma.
Parliamentary maneuvering and Jewish values.
Abdel Rahman was responsible for much of the last quarter-century of terrorism.
Selfless, brilliant, charismatic, and repugnant.
A just-reissued classic explores an unfamiliar realm of Jewish experience—and is a great American tale besides.