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Offline Odie

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Martin Kahane
« on: March 13, 2008, 06:38:21 PM »
   Did you know that Rabbi Meir Kahane's given first name was "Martin"
At what age did he change it to Meir
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Re: Martin Kahane
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2008, 10:10:53 AM »
 In a book, and in the Newspaper,
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Re: Martin Kahane
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2008, 10:29:20 AM »
Yes, his birth name was Martin, I believe he started adopting the name Meir sometime in his teens or later.  The only reference I have for this is the anti-Kahane book "The False Prophet". 
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"The Jews will eventually have to face up to what you're dealing with here.  The arabs will never love you for what good you've brought them.  They don't know how to really love.  But hate!  Oh, G-d, can they hate!  And they have a deep, deep, deep resentment because you have jolted them from their delusions of grandeur and shown them for what they are-a decadent, savage people controlled by a religion that has stripped them of all human ambition . . . except for the few cruel enough and arrogant enough to command them as one commands a mob of sheep.  You are dealing with a mad society and you'd better learn how to control it."

-Excerpt from The Haj by Leon Uris

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Re: Martin Kahane
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2008, 10:45:25 AM »
According to the original NYTimes obituary as well as other sources, his birth name was Martin.  Not that it makes any difference whether it birth name was Meir or not. 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D9143AF935A35752C1A966958260

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge/entries/009/Meir-Kahane.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-309651/Meir-Kahane
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"The Jews will eventually have to face up to what you're dealing with here.  The arabs will never love you for what good you've brought them.  They don't know how to really love.  But hate!  Oh, G-d, can they hate!  And they have a deep, deep, deep resentment because you have jolted them from their delusions of grandeur and shown them for what they are-a decadent, savage people controlled by a religion that has stripped them of all human ambition . . . except for the few cruel enough and arrogant enough to command them as one commands a mob of sheep.  You are dealing with a mad society and you'd better learn how to control it."

-Excerpt from The Haj by Leon Uris
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