Nachman Kahana


Nachman Kahana is an Israeli rabbi.

Biography

Kahana was born in 1937 and raised in Brooklyn, New York where he attended a branch of the Novardok Yeshiva, where he was ordained. His father was Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Kahane, and his brother was Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League and Kach.

Career

He worked as a civil servant in Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs and has also led the Birkat Kohanim Institute, which has attempted to establish a database of reliable Kohanim in Israel. He is the founder of the Center for Kohanim.
He is currently the spiritual leader of Hazon Yichezkeil a member synagogue of Young Israel in the Old City of Jerusalem. Additionally he has founded the Institute for Talmudic Commentaries through which he has published "Mei Menuchot" a Hebrew elucidation of the Tosafot commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. He has also been cited as collaborating on the recent and controversial attempts to resurrect the ancient Sanhedrin in the capacity of Av Beit Din, which is the second in command to the Rosh HaYeshiva / Nasi.

Writings