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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.
In 1820, in a precursor to modern Zionism, Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island, New York in the Niagara River, to be called "Ararat" after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark. He erected a monument at the island which read "Ararat, a City of Refuge for the Jews, founded by Mordecai M. Noah in ...
UJA-Federation of New York (United Jewish Appeal – Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc.) is the largest local philanthropy in the world. [1] Headquartered in New York City , the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for Jews everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds ...
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 ...
Instead, the WZO pursued a strategy of building a homeland through persistent small-scale immigration and the founding of such bodies as the Jewish National Fund (1901—a charity that bought land for Jewish settlement) and the Anglo-Palestine Bank (1903—provided loans for Jewish businesses and farmers).
According to the video’s captions—which were included in versions posted by Stein’s team on Facebook and on X—the candidate responds that “the Jewish people have Poland.” At @Columbia ...
Ararat, established as a city of refuge for the Jewish nation, was founded in 1825 by New York politician and playwright Mordecai Manuel Noah, who purchased most of Grand Island, a 27-square-mile (70 km 2) island near Buffalo, New York. [1] It failed to be a Jewish city. [2]
The fury of Jewish voters and activists already proved pivotal in Democratic primary elections in recent months — “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman was ousted from New York’s 16th Congressional ...