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Ever since the horrific public assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane at the Marriott Hotel in New York City in 1990, there has been a small, yet vocal group of individuals trying to get certain US authorities - both state and federal - to pay attention to his murder. Their many entreaties both for personal justice and for a wider investigation fell on deaf ears. Nonetheless, the ramifications from the inaction of these US authorities can no longer be ignored. This small group's personal pain at the rabbi's cold-blooded assassination fueled their initial anguished pleas. However, there was much more underlying...

No matter what you think of him, whether you hate him or love him, the name Meir Kahane is a name that will forever be engrained in the history of the Jewish people. But just this past week, fifteen years after his murder, he was vindicated on the world stage via American national television. Rabbi Kahane, born in Brooklyn in 1932, was an author, political activist and a member of the Israeli Knesset. When concluding a speech in Manhattan, Rabbi Kahane was assassinated by El-Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian and member of an Arab terrorist cell operating in New York in...

The very same day that the Clintons go to Long Island to meet with the TWA Flight 800 families, security guard Richard Jewell is patrolling the grounds of Centennial Park in Atlanta. He's a little Barney Fife-ish, but a good guy and very observant. Right around midnight, Jewell spots a large, olive-green, military-style backpack, known as an Alice pack, under a bench. He immediately shares this information with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. When the GBI cannot find the pack's owner, the GBI officer and Jewell begin to clear an area around the pack. Soon afterward, the pack explodes. Two...

Police of the Judea and Samaria district raided homes of a number of right-wing activists believed to be responsible for operating Kach and Kahane Chai websites. The webmasters were taken into custody. Both Kach and Kahane Chai, organizations promoting the ideology of late Knesset Member Rabbi Meir Kahane, were outlawed by Israel in 1994 (Rabbi Kahane was murdered by an Islamist terrorist in New York in 1990). The police operation, codenamed "Trojan Horse", was the result of a three-month investigation. Police stated that the operation was carried out with the cooperation of Interpol. As a result of the operation, police...

Torah Scroll & Synagogue to be Dedicated in Memory of the Kahane Family 21:50 Dec 30, '03 / 5 Tevet 5764 (IsraelNN.com) Organizers expect thousands to participate in the inauguration of a new synagogue and Torah scroll in the new neighborhood of Tapuah West in the Shomron community of Tapuah. The synagogue is the first to be built on Tapuah West and the first building being constructed in memory of Rabbi Meir Kahane, his son Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev and his daughter-in-law (Binyamin’s wife) Talia. Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by Arab terrorists in NY on 18th of Heshvan 5751 (5...

At the northern edge of The Pit, Port Authority officers, city cops and firefighters were raking through the last of the debris, still finding fragments of bone. At the opposite corner, ironworkers were preparing to cut the last erect piece of steel, a 36-foot-tall girder that had stood at the core of the south tower."Column 1001 B," said Lt. John Ryan, commander of the PA police recovery task force.Ryan pointed out the evenly spaced rectangles where the exterior columns had been. The rectangles marked off an acre in ghostly gray dirt where the tower once stood.There's one," Ryan said.He pointed...