The Hungarian-born Austrian Jewish author Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) founded the World Zionist Organization and served as its first president.Theodor Herzl, son of Jacob and Jeanette Herzl, was born on...
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Playwright Zellnik, and actor Glenn Fleshler
A couple weeks back a guy named David Zellnik emailed me, asking me to come see a reading of his play: "Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and D...
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The remains of the only grandchild of Zionist pioneer Theodor Herzl will be brought to Israel from the United States for reburial next month, a Jewish Agency official said Tuesday.Stephan Theodor N...
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Center for Jewish History, two scholars talked about journalism. Freud lived an upper middle class life in Vienna, and until he fled Nazism as a dying man, he read the paper that all professionals ...
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The body of Theodor "Teddy" Kollek, a former Jerusalem mayor who led one of the world's most complicated cities through a tumultuous 28 years, lay in state on Thursday in the city he shaped.Kollek,...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Teddy Kollek, who served as Israel's legendary
mayor of Jerusalem for a generation, was buried Thursday in a state
ceremony on his city's Mount Herzl.
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Not to belabor the obvious, but my father was saying that these big sociological questions are going to be brokered and renegotiated beneath the surface, quietly, and Jews and gentiles will adjust ...
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In a Jan. 3 story about the death of former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, The Associated Press reported erroneously that his middle name was Herzl. Kollek was named after the founder of modern Zion...
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Sixty years after jumping off a bridge to his death, the last descendant of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, was buried Wednesday in a Jerusalem cemetery bearing his grandfather's name...
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Trudy grew up in the 1930s in Westchester, in a big house with a 40-foot living room. Her father was a German who emigrated at the turn of the century to open a branch of a family business. He was ...
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muzzlewatch and rallied in the cold to support Jimmy Carter at Brandeis. He said, "But they're kind of a fringe organization."
Well, gee. That's actually what movement means, a rearrangement of th...
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