Nachman_Kahane Rabbi Nachman Kahane () was born in 1937 and raised in Brooklyn, New York where he attended a branch of the illustrious Novardok Yeshiva, which awarded him rabbinic ordination. His father was a well esteemed Talmudic scholar named Rabbi Yechezkel (Charles) Shraga Kahane, and his brother was Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense Leagueand Kach.