Theodore herzl

New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures

Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom.

IMAGES OF Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish Lives" series of biographies.
A fighter from the Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) takes part in a training exercise at a base near Erbil, Iraq, in February.

Israel and Kurdistan: Regional collapse reshapes the Middle East map - opinion

Historic aliyah records, including documents listing the Exodus immigrant ship and other vessels from the pre-state period, found in the Aliyah and Integration Ministry’s Tel Aviv offices.

Exodus was among the ship records found in a Tel Aviv document trove - exclusive

An illustrative image of God calling on Abraham to leave his country to the Promised Land.

The Torah between Abraham and Herzl: Israel’s call to moral leadership - opinion


Borderline views: British Jewry and their attitudes toward Israel

It is nothing short of a British understatement to state that it is not easy in today’s climate of renewed terrorism to focus on human rights.

Hassidic Jews in the United Kingdom

Raising the Zionist bar

The struggle to keep Mount Herzl relevant to contemporary life.

Pope Francis, flanked by former president Shimon Peres (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at Mount Herzl during his visit to Israel last May.

‘Self-ghettoization’ in the State of Israel

Ze’ev Jabotinsky was a fierce critic of the majority-rule interpretation of democracy.

Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl

Fundamentally Freund: Bring Herzl’s grandparents for reburial in Jerusalem

Over the past decade Israel has gone to great lengths to fulfill one of the dying wishes of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of modern political Zionism.

Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl

Circles of gold and fire – Tel Aviv to Vienna

The streets of Tel Aviv may show off sleek Bauhaus architecture in place of the ornate palaces of the Ringstrasse, but are no less than Herzl's Vienna.

THE FACADE of the Hotel Palais Hansen Kempinski in Vienna.

A Dose of Nuance: The night Ahad Ha’am could have declared victory

At Beit Avi Chai on Shavuot, Jews of all kinds came to learn together and showed a tremendous amount of respect.

A map of Shavuot learning lessons throughout Jerusalem.

Herzl: The interesting character that inspired a nation

The Jerusalem Post

Keeping the (Israeli) flag flying in Budapest

With the fourth-largest Jewish population in Europe, Hungary’s Israel Cultural Center is engaging a new generation of Jews.

Vered Glickman  (left), director of the ICI, stands with co-chair Gabor Rona in the Herzl Center.

Correcting the rise of political anti-Semtisim

The Jerusalem Post

Ce vieux pays résolument moderne

A l’occasion de la réédition du livre de Herzl, Altneuland, aux éditions du Marais, rencontre avec Claude Sitbon, l’auteur de la préface

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