Kahane's extremist ideas continue to resonate in the US and Israel
Shaul Magid, reviewing a new biography of Meir Kahane, acknowledges that he was a chauvinist, racist and xenophobe. However, his ideas about Jewish identity and a nearing apocalypse resonate today.
Supporters pray at the grave of Meir Kahane in Jerusalem in 1995.(photo credit: REUTERS)By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER