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Golden Book signed by Theodor Herzl and Johann Kremenetzky. In the Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection.. The Jewish National Fund (JNF; Hebrew: קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael; previously הפאנד הלאומי , Ha Fund HaLeumi) is a non-profit organization [2] [3] founded in 1901 to buy land and encourage Jewish resettlement in ...
Sep. 14—The Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., survived without a building to call its own for more than six decades, calling to mind Moses and the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for ...
In 1896, Theodor Herzl set out his vision of a Jewish state and homeland for the Jewish people in his book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). [5] [6] The following year he presided over the First Zionist Congress in Basel, at which the Zionist Organization was founded. [7]
An initiative was launched in 2020 in partnership between SCN and the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) with the support of UJA-Federation of New York to provide facility assessments and security training for Jewish camps, many of which are located in rural and open areas. In 2022, SCN delivered training for 2,885 staff members at 38 camps ...
Jewish Autonomism, seeking an ethnic-cultural autonomy for the Jews of Eastern Europe; Yiddishism, some proponents of which regarded Yiddish-speakers as a national group Bundism, which combined Yiddishist Autonomism with socialism; Soviet Yiddishism, promoting Yiddish-speakers as a national group in the USSR with its own Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership claims that parts of the text of the Gun Control Act of 1968 were translated from Nazi legislation. [25] The German Weapons Law, which existed before the Nazis came to power in 1933, was altered on 18 March 1938 by the Nazi Government.
The first national conference was held in November in Washington, D.C., and drew over 750 participants and speakers. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] During an on-stage discussion about the Palestinian issue between IAC's two megadonors, Saban and Adelson, the former insisted on the two-state solution to keep Israel both Democratic and Jewish.
Touro University Nevada was established to help address critical needs in health care and education, and as a resource for community service in Nevada. A non-profit, Jewish-sponsored, private institution affiliated with an international system of higher education, the university opened in 2004 with 78 medical students.