Theodore herzl

New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures

Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
IMAGES OF Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish Lives" series of biographies.
A fighter from the Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) takes part in a training exercise at a base near Erbil, Iraq, in February.

Israel and Kurdistan: Regional collapse reshapes the Middle East map - opinion

Israel and Kurdistan face shared adversaries, raising questions about new alliances as old Middle East borders weaken and fragment.

|ByMEM HUSEDIN
Historic aliyah records, including documents listing the Exodus immigrant ship and other vessels from the pre-state period, found in the Aliyah and Integration Ministry’s Tel Aviv offices.

Exodus was among the ship records found in a Tel Aviv document trove - exclusive

Documents and photographs reviewed by The Jerusalem Post show that the material spans several years and reflects more than one phase of Jewish immigration to Israel.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An illustrative image of God calling on Abraham to leave his country to the Promised Land.

The Torah between Abraham and Herzl: Israel’s call to moral leadership - opinion

The Torah portions Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Hayei Sarah form a trilogy of leadership, from vision to continuity. Abraham and Herzl lived in different worlds but shared a mission.

|ByZEHAVIT GROSS

Theodor Herzl: From vision to reality

Theodor Herzl is not only the visionary of The Jewish State; for the Jews he is a kind of modern biblical Moses.

NOVEMBER 28, 2019ByDR. NISSIM LEVY
SEALING STAMP of the Jewish National Fund depicting Theodor Herzl in his iconic posture on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, during the First Zionist Congress, 1897. The quoted Psalm 137, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning,” was how Herz

The need for Israel 71 years later

Ask yourself and then your child: would you travel to Israel for free? Now ask: if necessary, would you travel to Israel to live?

JUNE 29, 2019ByADAM HUMMEL
THE TWENTY-FIRST Zionist Congress, Geneva, 1939.

Know your Zionist history with new WZO Zionism Calendar

If you have ever wanted to know the answer to these key questions of Zionist history, then the new World Zionist Organization Zionist Calendar may be for you.

JANUARY 16, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Zionism, between the real and the ideal

Hate: Herzl’s unfulfilled vow

The Jewish state that was promised as antisemitism’s cure has become its excuse, focus and obsession.

JUNE 13, 2018ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Anti-Israel demonstrators at the World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001

La déclaration Balfour, toujours sur le banc des accusés

100 ans après, la célèbre lettre ouverte du ministre des Affaires étrangères britannique reste un sujet de controverse. Qu’en pensent les descendants de Lord Balfour ?

NOVEMBER 5, 2017ByGOL KALEV
Carte postale créée par l’institut Betsalel en l’honneur de la déclaration Balfour

The Golden age of Jewish-Christian relations

Christian love demanded that they try and convert the Jews, but more often than not, Jews felt more wrath than grace.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017ByTULY WEISZ
Powerful docudrama produced by CBN.

Middle Israel: The Arab Herzl

Only Theodor Herzl’s "ism" has bucked the trend, remaining fresh, relevant, and a very big success 120 years after its launch.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
THE BIRTHPLACE of the ‘ism’ that has survived: Basel, Switzerland, scene of the First Zionist Congress, 1897

My word: From Herzl to the Zionists’ dogs

The anniversary of the First Zionist Congress has produced much pontification on what the Zionist visionary would have made of today’s State of the Jews.

AUGUST 31, 2017ByLIAT COLLINS
THE FAMOUS image of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel is seen on a clock face in Jerusalem

120 Herzls gather in Herzliya to celebrate Zionist Congress anniversary

“They say no one is irreplaceable, but I don’t know if someone else could have started the great process that Herzl put in motion."

AUGUST 26, 2017ByJTA
120 Herzls gather in Herzliya to celebrate the anniversary of the First Zionist Congress

In Herzl’s footsteps

Nissim Levy, the new chairman of the Herzl Museum, talks of the visionary’s concepts of secularism and declares: ‘This is the only country for Jews but it has to be a normal county’

JULY 13, 2017ByJANICE WEIZMAN
Thedodor Herzl, lors du 1er congrès sioniste mondial en 1897