Tag: Zionism
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If you will it, it is no dream… but only on our terms
In his address to the Zionist Congress in London on Aug. 2, 1900, Theodor Herzl said:
“Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured home in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform, which we...
Nefesh B’Nefesh ‘Initiative for Zionist Innovation’ grant applications open
Together with the Steinmetz Herskovitz Family Fund, aliyah agency Nefesh B’Nefesh is seeking applications for its 2020 “Initiative for Zionist Innovation” grant, which aims to empower new immigrants to Israel committed to strengthening and building their...
Herzl’s lost ‘parochet’ found in warehouse in Tel Aviv
After 70 years of searches, the mystery of the fate of the parochet—the ornamental curtain that covers the ark (aron kodesh) containing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue—that was placed over Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl’s coffin when...
Summertime Blues and Whites: In an era of BDS, kids connect to Israel at...
Aviva Weinstein fell in love with Israel thousands of miles from the Jewish homeland at Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
Weinstein is among the generations of North American Jewish teens who have forged lifelong attachments...
It’s more than just a parade for Israel
They come from all over the greater New York area and around the United States. Tens of thousands of Jews (and non-Jews) gather once a year in New York City to march down Fifth...
The Sephardi role in the development of Zionism
Far too many people unfortunately believe Zionism to be a movement created in the 19th century, largely in Europe, by purely secular Jews who rode the wave of nationalism spreading across the globe at...
California State University agrees to landmark settlement on Jewish rights
A landmark settlement has been reached between the California State University (CSU) public university system and the legal think Lawfare Project, and the law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, regarding a lawsuit brought by...
Meet the pastors behind Brazil’s new pro-Israel foreign policy
Brazil used to be known as an anti-Israel country. Dominated for years by the leftist Workers’ Party, its elite society was largely shaped by anti-Israel intellectuals, academics and political activists for Arab countries.
But behind...
Habonim Dror North America: Building a Zionist education against the ‘occupation’
Several camp counselors from Habonim Dror were present at an IfNotNow Jewish summer camp counselor training session in Boston on May 27.
An organization that seeks to promote sympathy for the Palestinian narrative by encouraging...
Hanukkah’s true meaning is about Jewish survival
Beginning on the evening of Dec. 12, Jews will celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish holiday.
While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in...