It was not Labor Zionism, like the Zionism of David Ben-Gurion and his socialist followers.
Having lasted for a century, the tension between Zionism and orthodoxy is a familiar one.
He learned from the early Zionist leader Yehuda Pinsker's seminal pamphlet, Auto-Emancipation, that Zionism rejects utopianism.
Brandeis was never a practising Jew, but he was a passionate convert to Zionism.
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He plans to lay a wreath at the grave of Theodor Herzl, considered the father of modern Zionism.
Zionism doesn't concern itself with how people ought to behave, but with what they are capable of doing.
Here too, the best efforts of radical professors to convince their students to abandon Zionism seem to be faltering.
Before leaving Israel, Obama paid tribute to the father of modern Zionism in a symbolic visit to Theodor Herzl's grave.
Kafka had a complex relationship with Judaism, veering between secularism and Zionism at an uneasy time for Jews in Eastern Europe.
Theodore Herzl, the founding visionary of the Jewish state, would not have anticipated the co-option of Zionism by a right-wing religious movement.
The visit has been overshadowed by the Turkish PM's remarks about Zionism.
Moreover, Jewish opinion in Europe was divided between Zionism and other streams of Jewish identity during the whole of the 20th century.
Zionism has been a central feature of Jewish identity for 3, 500 years.
In the US, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said "the characterisation of Zionism as a crime against humanity... is offensive and wrong".
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Half a dozen websites in English alone (like efatwa.com, muftisays.com and askimam.com) offer online advice about everything from ablution to Zionism.
He called this book of essays The Founding Fathers of Zionism.
Its prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has at times railed against Zionism.
Religious Zionism, which had been marginal to Israeli politics, gained strength, not least among the first Israelis who came to build settlements in the West Bank.
In its central aim of giving the scattered Jews a sense of national peoplehood and providing them with a haven, Zionism has been a brilliant success.
It was not religious Zionism, like that of the Lovers of Zion movement which formed the core of the initial modern Jewish settlement drive in the Land of Israel.
For many, Zionism was now imbued with eschatological significance.
Another, paradoxically, is a product of Zionism's very success.
By the same token, the toxic nature of the intellectual environment related to anti-Semitism, anti- Zionism and contemporary forms of both arguably renders top tier journals averse to publishing articles on them.
On Wednesday night, on Yom Yerushalayim in Ir David, the historic site of King David's palace, the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism was given to three extraordinary leaders: Anita Tucker, Rabbi Yoel Schwartz and Brig.
One institution that emphasized a religious, even mystical, form of Zionism was the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, a center of study in Jerusalem that revolved around the rabbinical legacy of Avraham Kook and his son Tzvi Yehuda Kook.
In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.
The visionary Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, clarified and gave political weight to the concept of Jewish nationalism - or Zionism - and a national home for the Jews in Palestine at the first Zionist Congress at Basle, in Switzerland, in 1897.
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