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...more meaningful argument for a Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership...
Quoting Theodore Herzl, Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre, Dershowitz said that for too long, Jewish identity has been based in fighting institutionalized oppression. "Our enemies make us one," he said...
...conference, which opened Tuesday with a series of lectures at Brandeis University, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Theodor Herzl's work, Der Judenstaat, which was the first expression of modern political Zionism...
...ironic, but perhaps not coincidental, that the year of Netanyahu's election marks the 100th anniversary of the first publication of The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl, the father of Zionism...
...inhospitable hosts for all Jews that were willing to make Aliyah (immigrate) to Israel and work hard at revitalizing the land that had become stagnant since their expulsion from it thousands of years before. Netanyahu's election promises revitalization and reunification of a different sought for the grandchildren of Herzl's generation...