The Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Danger of Conflating Politics with Law
Whatever happened to “It’s legal, but it stinks”?
December 5, 2019
A Supposed Letter from Joseph B. Soloveitchik Praising Meir Kahane Is a Fake
A misspelled signature and an uncharacteristic rebuke.
In 1984, Israel’s then-President Chaim Herzog refused to meet with the newly seated parliamentarian Rabbi Meir Kahane, the leader of the now-outlawed Kakh party, despite meeting with the heads of every other party in the Knesset. The refusal no doubt owed to Kahane’s anti-Arab bigotry and sympathy for vigilante violence. Discovered in Herzog’s archives was what appeared to be a letter from the revered American rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik upbraiding him for his frostiness toward Kahane and stating that the latter was “despite his many, many errors, a God-fearing Jew who fights for the honor of Heaven and of the Jewish people.”
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The Baby Bust and the New Progressive Turn against Marriage
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A Supposed Letter from Joseph B. Soloveitchik Praising Meir Kahane Is a Fake
A misspelled signature and an uncharacteristic rebuke.