Between the Altar and the Sanctuary: The Life, Faith, and Fire of Rabbi Meir Kahane - Black & White Edition Paperback – January 16, 2026

Paperback Black and White Edition: Book SummaryAs a published author and painter, Settenbrino is known for his passionate, raw, and unrelenting style. His pen and brush bear witness to what he calls the unfinished conversation between Heaven and history. Few voices are as perfectly suited to pursue the fiery, indefatigable frequency of Rabbi Meir Kahane.Settenbrino writes from lived experience. Raised between Brooklyn and New York’s iconic Lower East Side, he grew up surrounded by stories of survival, faith, and grit.His work fuses prophetic realism with original art and history, weaving words and images into acts of revelation. Through his eyes, readers encounter the daring and captivating presence of Kahane, whom he first met as a boy and followed through lectures, rallies, and post-protest pastrami binges at the Second Avenue Deli.Kahane, is portrayed, as a prophet whose warnings now blaze through the illusions of a generation that believed Jews could live as all others, with impunity. His voice, once scorned, echoes through today’s chaos with chilling accuracy.Settenbrino’s writing is both lyrical and confrontational, weeping, shouting, and singing. Kahane a reborn Davidic Jew, is willing to pay any price, suffer any indignity, and tear down the golden calf of liberalism. He stands against the corruption of comfort and the cowardice of conformity, a call to arms for those who still believe in destiny.The Jewish people, once the conscience of the world, now stand again, as the sages warned, at the forty-ninth level: the brink of spiritual extinction. The greatest threat is not antisemitism alone, but the voluntary self-erasure of Jewish identity.“Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.” — Rabbi Meir KahaneKahane scorned the hypocrisy of organizations that inflated their worth, while abandoning their mission. They whispered that he was “dangerous,” even as they admired Henry Kissinger, the man who told Nixon that if the USSR decided to kill its Jews, it was “none of America’s business.”While the ADL and Federation preached “interfaith dialogue,” Kahane fought in the streets to defend elderly Jews being terrorized in their changing neighborhoods. His unrelenting will shamed the establishment that should have stood beside him. The contempt of the self-proclaimed “leaders” of American Jewry is immortalized in the record of their collaboration with the FBI to silence him.Yet his fire still burns here in Between the Altar and the Sanctuary.Critical Acclaim“Settenbrino may fancy himself a painter, but the Blue Moon is his bricks-and-mortar masterpiece.”Susan Pigg, Toronto Star“Settenbrino is conspicuous for the sensitivity and boldness with which he achieves a sought-after goal.”James Gardner, Bloomberg“Forging the past vibrantly.”John Freeman Gill, Architectural Editor, Streetscapes New York TimesAuthor BiographySettenbrino is a visionary recognized by National Geographic Traveler for his restoration of the Historic Blue Moon Hotel, named one of the “150 Most Unique Hotels in the Western Hemisphere.”His art and writing, forged from lived experience explore the eternal dialogue between G-d and man, exile and return, suffering and renewal.As the son of a Jewish mother and Christian father, he seeks harmony between their faiths a bridge of beauty for Jews and Christians to walk together, between prophets and modern men.Settenbrino’s Diaspora Mural, permanently exhibited at the Blue Moon Hotel, appear throughout this work, a visual chronicle of faith and endurance.Through his nonprofit OhrChodoshLZion.org, he seeks to unite a renaissance of spiritual creativity. https://www.ohrchodoshlzion.orgSubstack: https://randysettenbrino.substack.comRandy Settenbrino Israel National News Read more