Menachem Rosensaft was always an outlier in the U.S. Jewish establishment for his willingness to speak his mind on Israel. As he leaves the World Jewish Congress, he recalls his clash with the late Meir Kahane in the 1980s, and why he’s confident Israeli democracy will prevail
NEW YORK – More than 35 years ago, long before the Jewish supremacist ideology espoused by Meir Kahane had infiltrated the highest levels of the Israeli government, young attorney Menachem Rosensaft was sparring with the racist U.S. rabbi on the pages of The New York Post.
