It was the night of November 5, 1990, in a second-floor conference room at the Marriott East Side Hotel in midtown Manhattan. That is when Sayyid Nosair murdered Meir Kahane.
The Brooklyn-born founder of the Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Kahane was a controversial Israeli politician: a radical ultra-nationalist and anti-Communist. Nosair, an Egyptian-born American, was then 35, an electrician in the New York City courts. It about just 9 p.m. when he wormed his way into a knot of admirers lingering to ask questions at the conclusion of Kahane's speech. Astride the podium, he shot Kahane at point-blank range, firing two rounds with a .357 magnum revolver.
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