In one money-raising appeal uncovered by The Daily News, a banned group directs donors to a Borough Park, Brooklyn, address and 718 phone number.

In Israel, Kahane Chai and other radical groups on the U.S. list are under increased scrutiny after the Shin Bet spy agency warned that extremists have put Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in their cross hairs and may blow up the Al Aqsa Mosque, holy to Muslims worldwide, on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.

Spokesmen for some of the groups deny the Shin Bet allegations but admit they're furious that Sharon is pushing a plan to give up Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land in Gaza and the West Bank.

Among the pro-settler Jews raising thousands in New York is David Haivri, who has long ties to the movement founded by Meir Kahane, the radical Brooklyn-born rabbi slain by an Egyptian Islamist in New York in 1990.

Haivri's sister Talia was married to Kahane's son, Rabbi Binyamin Kahane. Both were slain by Palestinian gunmen in 2001.

The more than $100,000 Haivri raised on a recent U.S. speaking tour will go solely to "educational projects," Haivri insists. "It's mostly for publishing newsletters, books and posters," he said. He also denied he is an advocate of violence.

"We do advocate physical resistance to an extent," he conceded. But only "civil disobedience to make it difficult for [the Israeli government] to give over our Jewish land."

Haivri, cited by Israel as one of the Kahane movement's central figures, noted that his recent fund-raising was done under the auspices of a new group called Revava, which is not on the U.S. terror groups list.

But Haivri has long been affiliated with Kahane Chai and the Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea, two banned groups.

The two groups, and about 50 others, are aliases for Kahane Chai, the Treasury Department says.

The groups are linked to violence against Palestinians and have also been called terror groups in Israel.

"If you're an American Jew, or for that matter a Christian evangelical contributing to them, you're contributing to a group very likely to use violence against Israeli security forces," warned Yossi Alpher, a former official of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency.

Another group raising funds is the banned Voice of Judea, which on its Web site, and in E-mails, urges readers to send checks to Gedud Haivri, also known as the Jewish Legion - another banned group - at a 44th St. address in Borough Park. A 718 phone number accompanying the pitch forwards calls to Jerusalem.

The Treasury Department lists the Jewish Legion and the Voice of Judea as Kahanist aliases and prohibits U.S. citizens from transactions with them. The group's Web site invites volunteers to Israel for a paramilitary training program in West Bank Jewish settlements.

Photographs show participants armed with machine guns posing with Mike Guzofsky, the longtime leader of Kahane Chai. Much of the Web site stresses the group's program to train bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol West Bank settlements.

"This is not a right-wing organization. It helps defend Jews," said Ezra Stein, Gedud's executive director. Asked about the fund-raising in America, he said, "We have some friends, people out in Brooklyn and different parts of the U.S. to help us."

U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman Molly Millerwise denied allegations from Muslim organizations that the U.S. is lax when it comes to monitoring Jewish terror groups. "Any indication there is terrorist financing going on is something we'd look into," she insisted.

Originally published on August 25, 2004