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Jul 26, 2026, 6:50 AM

Treasure Trove: Camp Ramah in Canada, Hockey’s Herzl Cup and Peace for Israel

Photograph by Noah Chaikof, used with permission.

There is no evidence that Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the visionary of the State of Israel and the founder of the Zionist movement, knew anything about hockey. However, he would be proud to know that there are a number of...

Jul 20, 2026, 6:34 PM

Why is Jabotinski Israel’s Most Memorialized Figure?

Part 1 — Why This, Why Now. There are 57 streets, squares, and parks named after Ze'ev Jabotinsky in Israel — more than Theodor Herzl (52) and more than David Ben-Gurion (48), the state's own founder. Likud's headquarters sits inside...

Jul 20, 2026, 4:42 AM

Treasure Trove: Don’t Forget the Justice Part of Zionism (A Note for Tisha B’Av)

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by Kevin Viner, Elevator Digital, Toronto used with permission.

There is a Jewish story told about Napoleon. He once travelled through a Jewish small town in Europe and entered a synagogue where he witnessed men and women sitting on the floor weeping. Napoleon asked what terrible misfortune had...

Jul 17, 2026, 7:05 PM

The #Herzl100: 100 Herzl Artifacts in 100 Days

I own the world's largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia and this summer I am posting 100 Herzl artifacts from my collection in 100 days. 45 episodes have dropped so far, with another 55 episodes to go. The #Herzl100 can...

Eric M. Leiderman

Jul 13, 2026, 5:02 AM

Did America Prove Herzl Wrong?

Theodor Herzl never witnessed the rise of American Jewry. This illustration imagines Herzl overlooking New York as the United States emerged as the most successful Diaspora community in Jewish history. (AI-generated illustration created with ChatGPT/OpenAI. Not a historical photograph.)

Theodor Herzl remains one of the defining Jewish thinkers of the modern era because he recognized a truth that many of his contemporaries preferred not to see. Writing amid the rise of European nationalism and in the shadow of...

Jul 10, 2026, 8:42 AM

Treasure Trove: Alfred Dreyfus, Toronto and Elaine from Seinfeld

From the Herzl and Zionsim Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

In 2025, France declared that July 12 will be the national day of commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus. The first such day is in 2026, which is the 120th anniversary of the day that France’s highest appeals court recognized Dreyfus’...

Mark S. Levenson

Jul 9, 2026, 10:23 AM

The future of Zionism is built on diversity and collaboration

It was fitting that Zionist leaders from around the world gathered in Budapest in June. As the birthplace of Theodor Herzl and home to one of Europe's most resilient Jewish communities, the city symbolizes both the origins of modern Zionism...

Jul 3, 2026, 6:30 PM

Treasure Trove: Jabotinsky’s 1964 Return Home

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, the Betar youth movement and the Jewish legion of soldiers who fought for the British in World War I (See In 1940 he visited the United States...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:15 PM

The Israel I Heard on a Mountaintop

John Boyd Thacher Park in New York's Helderberg Mountains. (Photo Credit: "Discover Albany"--https://www.albany.org/listing/john-boyd-thacher-state-park/1967/)

In June 1967, a high school friend and I spent six consecutive nights driving from our homes in Albany, New York, to the top of John Boyd Thacher Park in the Helderberg Mountains. We arrived just before midnight carrying...

May 27, 2026, 11:24 AM

The Indisputable Zionism of the Black Panther Party and Why it Matters Now

(Part I: The Jew boy fight, the JDL, Zionists, and the Black Power Party’s Zionist-inspired platform) I was introduced to the Black Panthers in the eighth grade by my friend Gene—I think that was his name. We were walking...

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