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Never Again! The Life & Times of Rabbi Meir Kahane Part I

Jewish History Soundbites

An exploration of the life and times of Rabbi Meir Kahane, a complex figure in post-war Jewish history.

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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the guerrero prolific team members slain in west germany at the future out of the 24 who were at the future out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn in covenant i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] it is never too little it is never too late and thank you um so the the um before we get to this part one of uh the story of mayor kahana i want to just um clarification or two about from a previous episode on the jewish community of rhodes i got some nice feedback in the beginning i made a uh an assertion about greek and latin and then i went off on a tangent about french and english english i learned a big lesson from that because since i was inc i subsequently found out from our knowledgeable listeners that i was incorrect in my assertions that it's not wise to try to show off that i know about pre-modern jewish history it's just a bad idea stick to things i know and the roman empire is something i definitely do not so i got this feedback from a listener i just heard feedback from a listener i just heard you say and i didn't even get into the episode that greek was the court language of the roman empire i'm not a historian they didn't even google this but i'm like 99 sure that the western empire spoke latin the eastern empire spoke greek both as the court language and the common language within the respective capitals the provinces spoke their local languages so i then went ahead and actually looked it up instead of speaking off the cuff like i did on the episode and it turns out that it's more or less

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  1. 0:00[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the guerrero prolific team
  2. 3:34the lower class spoke english and the upper class spoke french rather the lower class spoke
  3. 7:08the greatest baseball players ever also uh just uh died yesterday or two days ago and
  4. 10:44jews in other words he's he's out there to create to stir the pot to create
  5. 14:17became attached to it so that colors the whole story retroactively as well and it then
  6. 17:50he usually did it with a clear with clear level-headed answers quite in contrast to the
  7. 20:53kamanovich the reshishiva of mere brooklyn at the time and he's the one who galvanizes him
  8. 24:26rabbinate shaped his outlook on the future of the american jewish community and would be a
  9. 27:30uh they would know how to use uh guns or even bombs for their objectives or
  10. 31:03he used it in every context possible he grew up in that post-holocaust generation there was

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