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The story of Herzl's son's missing coffin
Sefi Hendler
Published: 17.09.06, 19:31
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1. The wonderful Herzl's legacy!
Keren ,   Sao Paulo   (09.18.06)
Maybe the familiar Herzl's legacy is not that beautiful-at least the points stressed by this article-,but the Israel Herzl has visioned is still a baby and is a Miracle and is wonderful. True,it has not been easy...But when one thinks,Israel is a very,very special country.More than 80 different cultures joined together with Judaim being its connecting point.A cultured people;an old culture;an experienced People;a People that have reached to rebirth a language,almost dead by then,due to persistence and fight...(I don't remember who was the man who started this rebirth by deciding to talk only in Hebrew to his wife,in order to acomplish the desire of Israel's language to be Hebrew) Israel is still finding its way among enourmous difficulties,but,I am sure the future is beatiful and promissor,since the caracteristics of this country and its people are very special. The important is not to lose such a preciosity and fight wisely for decisive and good results. I see this way.
2. Is this the same guy that is looked upon
bush ,   USA   (09.18.06)
in the Israeli world as a hero and mentor. Really sad! so many good Jews out there and all they could teach their children is about a failure. Someone who failed teaching his own children about Judaism. Thank G-d to the religious world who are still successful in all that they do. Who aren't naive to the world around them. Smart, Witty, and getting stronger.
3. No Judaism, no future
Jerry ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (09.18.06)
Just as Herzl's family disintegrates, so we are sadly seeing the failure of his hope for return to the Land of Israel without taking the G-d of Israel with us. Only through adherance to the Torah will we succeed here, otherwise, we'll wind up like Herzl's progeny - mad, suicidal, murdered. Actually, it looks as if we're already there.
4. Herzl's family
leah amdur ,   Jerusalem Israel   (09.18.06)
What happened to Herzl's wife. Unfortunately the atheist Jews and assimilationists do not leave 10 children behind, they have no tradition to pass on
5. Hertzel was an anti-Jew....
safed, Israel   (09.18.06)
There is a CD out (shofar) about the histroy of the Zionist movement that would make anyones skin crawl. It comes as no suprise that Herzl's family was such a mess, he himself embrassed non Jewish ways and belief as better than Jewish and didn't want by any means to have orthodox and religous Jews living in the modern seculare reality he tried to create in Israel. The guy was full of #@!%$ and it's embarassing that so many people in Israel don't realize what he really represented, hatered of his own identity.
6. Jerry # 3
Keren ,   Sao Paulo   (09.18.06)
I agree with you.I think this is the fundamental missing point.
7. Correction # 1
Keren ,   Sao Paulo   (09.18.06)
"More than 80 different cultures joined together with Judaim being its connecting point.A cultured people..." More than 80 different cultures joined together with Judaism SUPOSED TO BE, AND HOPEFULLY BEING IN THE NEAR FUTURE,more and more,its connecting point.A cultured people..
8. theodore herzl's children
ruth ,   baltimore, md   (09.18.06)
what is wrong wit you people? if someone is not religious you vilify him and his family? why are you not living in Israel if you are so religious?Afraid to serve in the army?
9. and Herzl's last descendant--died in Washingotn DC
robert ,   potomac md   (09.18.06)
and Herzl's last descendant, his grandson,Stephen Theodore Newman, committed suicide in Washington, DC in 1946 after leaerning that his mother Trude had died in the Holocaust. He was working for the British Embassy in DC--he jumped off a bridge into Rock Creek Park. A very sad family--that today would be helped by antidepressants. #5 don't oversimply or vilify Herzl--he was a complex figure.
10. See the Herzl video
me ,   here   (09.19.06)
mms://media2.013.net/shofar/Documentation_Movies/Herzl-English.wmv It's in Hebrew
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