Volume 33, Number 2 · February 13, 1986
The Sayings of Rabbi Kahane
By Robert I. Friedman
I first talked with Rabbi Meir Kahane in December 1979, at his Jerusalem headquarters, which he calls the Museum of the Potential Holocaust. The 'museum' was filled with anti-Semitic literature which he had clipped from American hate-group publications and pasted on display boards. At the time, Kahane was a political pariah. His followers in Israel consisted of no more than a few dozen American teen-agers who had belonged to the Jewish Defense League in the United States. 'Numbers aren't important,' Kahane told me. 'How many Maccabees fought the Greeks?'
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