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Written by Binyamin Zev Kahane
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 At the end of Parshat Ki-Tisa, God prepares the Jewish people for their
entry into the land of Israel (which awaited them shortly if not for
the subsequent sin of the spies), and we see the following commandment:
"Observe thou that which I am commanding thee this day, behold, I am
driving out before thee the Amorite, and the Cananite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to
thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goes, lest they be for a snare in the midst of
thee."(34:11,12)
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Fresh off the press: RABBI MEIR KAHANE: His Life and Thought (Volume One: 1932-1975) by Libby Kahane
From the back cover:
 Rabbi Meir Kahane was born in New York
City
in 1932. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, receiving rabbinic
ordination in 1956. That same year, he completed his law studies at New
York Law School, and he subsequently received a master's degree in
international law from New York University. After serving as a
congregational rabbi, he founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968 in
order to combat the rise in antisemitism. Concerned about the
alienation and assimilation of Jewish youth, Rabbi Kahane spent two
decades touring American college campuses, exhorting Jewish students to
learn about Judaism, make aliya to Israel and stand up proudly as Jews.
In 1970, he spearheaded a campaign of Jewish activism that led to the
emigration of tens of thousands of oppressed Jews from the Soviet
Union. He entered the political arena in Israel when he made aliya in
1971 and was a member of the Israeli Knesset from 1984 to 1988. He
wrote several best-selling books, including Never Again!, Why Be
Jewish? and The Story of the Jewish Defense League. His widely-read
weekly columns appeared in The Jewish Press from 1961 to 1990.
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Written by Rabbi Meir Kahane
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In days gone by when Jews were the people of an Almighty in whom they
truly believed; in years long since gone when Jews were tied to their
Father in Heaven with an awe and love and spiritual intoxication that
made Him a permanent part of every thought and deed and sinew, they
understood and knew that all that occurs on earth is because of Him and
tied to the deeds of Israel. That reward and punishment are not things
for esoteric afternoons when a lesson in Ethics of the Fathers is given
to an entertained Sabbath audience or for the 15 minutes set aside in
the yeshiva for mediation in a Mussar Sefer, to be admired and mused
over in theory, distinct theory.
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Written by Rabbi Meir Kahane
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“Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20)
“Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see” (Isaiah 42:18
Prime Minister Begin has been adamant in stating that there will “never
be a Palestine state” and “we will never speak with the PLO.” Yet in
the Camp David accords, Mr. Begin agreed to the following:
“Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the representatives of the Palestine people
should participate in negotiations on the resolution of the Palestinian
problem in all its aspect.” And again: “The solution from the
negotiations must also recognize the legitimate rights of the
Palestinian people and their just requirements.
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