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Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America Bernice Tannenbaum (1913–2015), activist with Hadassah Joseph Trumpeldor (1880–1920), born in the Russian Empire, involved in the organisation of the Zion Mule Corps which assisted in Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine
When the secular "people's lawyer" Louis Brandeis became involved in the movement in 1912, just before World War I, support for Zionism increased. [9] By 1917, Brandeis' leadership had increased American Zionist membership ten times to 200,000 members, and "American Jewry thenceforth became the financial center for the world Zionist movement," [10] greatly surpassing its previous European base ...
The Zionist Organization of America helped mobilized political support in the United States for Israel, with large scale funding and pressure on Washington and on public opinion. Emanuel Neumann and Hillel Silver were two leaders of the Zionist Organization of America. They felt its massive funding legitimized taking a major role in shaping ...
Zionism [a] is an ethnocultural nationalist [b] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people through the colonization of Palestine, [2] an area roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, [3] and of central importance in Jewish history.
Considered the father of political Zionism, Herzl did not live to see a Jewish state. He died of heart disease in 1904. Did Zionism always envision statehood for Jews in what is now Israel?
Hamas gunmen killed 1,400 people and took around 200 hostages, including Americans, when they rampaged through Israeli towns. Israel has since put Gaza under siege. At least 4,385 Palestinians ...
Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America members (16 P) J. Jewish American Mahal personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (11 P) K. American Kahanists (1 C, 18 P)
Rachel Burnett, a senior who described herself as a non-Zionist Jew, disagreed with the call for divestment and academic boycotts, especially of UCLA’s Nazarian Center, an educational center for ...