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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
April 4, 2018
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, leaning over the balcony of the Drei Konige Hotel during the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 29, 1897. (GPO via Getty Images). JERUSALEM (JTA) — All too often, when I ask campus organizations that are pro-Israel and deeply Zionist why theyÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 4, 2018
Demographics are the underpinning of the story of Israel. When Theodor Herzl wrote his 1896 treatise titled “The Jewish State” (“Der Judenstaat”), he envisioned an orderly mass Jewish move from Europe to the sparsely populated Land of Israel (or to Argentina, as a fallback option). He believed that one ofÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 3, 2018
Israel Consulate General to the Midwest Aviv Ezra, right, presented Theodor Herzl School of Excellence Principal Tamara L. Davis with a copy of the book ... On March 23, nearly 50 community members from Skokie's Temple Beth Israel and eighth grade students from Theodor Herzl School for Excellence inÃâà...
The Good Men Project (blog)
April 3, 2018
There are moments in everybody's life when you hear something or see something and you knew everything had to change. For Theodor Herzl, it was seeing the rabid European anti-Semitism of the 1890s at the Dreyfus trial and prophetically seeing that Europe was not safe for Jews. This led him to foundÃâà...
Haaretz
April 2, 2018
I am not a historian, and therefore I won't go into the details of the story described in “A Letter from London,” from Theodor Herzl to the outbreak of the war in 1948. I imagine that David Lloyd George, Herbert Samuel and Clement Attlee are familiar names to many readers, as are concepts such as the WhiteÃâà...
Mintpress News
March 30, 2018
Among the many suggested topics are things like reading poems, hiking in the countryside, recognizing national figures like Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion, and symbols like the Menorah and the national fruit, the olive. It recommends discussing the history, both modern and ancient, of Israel; andÃâà...
Blasting News
March 29, 2018
But Modern Zionism was considered to be founded by Theodor Herzl, he wrote Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews) and with this attracted significant international attention and he stated within in that if the Jews were to be able to live without persecution, then it would have to be in their own state.
GazetteNET
March 23, 2018
Israel — which turns 70 on May 14, Yom Ha'atzmaut — is one of the youngest nations in the world. It is also one of the oldest. Reconciling this paradox isn't easy. Since the Destruction of the Second Temple, in the year 70 CE, Israelites, who later morphed into Jews (I'm proudly one of them), wanderedÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
They are bewildered by the impression that Israel is abandoning the humanistic vision of Theodor Herzl and taking on a character that does not suit its own core values or the spirit of the 21st century. The leadership of the Jewish world always honors the choices made by the Israeli voter and acts in concertÃâà...
Daily Herald
March 14, 2018
A secular Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodor Herzl, was the first to turn rumblings of Jewish nationalism into an international movement around 1896.” “The Zionist Organization of Utah is an association which was created in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and is part of the ZionistÃâà...
CBS Chicago
December 31, 1999
... ice breaking session and got to know each other better. Israel's Consul General to the Midwest Aviv Ezra also met with the students and teachers. Canadian lawyer David Matlow is the driving force behind the student exchange project. He owns the world's largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia.
