ad come to accept Zionism. Orthodox Jews, except for the extreme fanatics among them, had accepted Zionism shortly after the turn of the century. After the Six Day War in 1967, Reform Jews finally accepted the Zionist idea. In fact, today, there is even an official Reform Zionist organization, called ARZA, the Association of Reform Zionists of America. It took the Holocaust and other monumental events of recent Jewish history, to convince Reform Jews that we needed a Jewish state. Had there been a place of escape for victims of Nazi persecution during the Holocaust, countless numbers of Jews could have been saved from Hitler’s executioners.Theodore Herzl dedicated his life to the Zionist cause and lost his life fighting to obtain a Jewish state. His efforts, although at first were unappreciated, and looked to be unnecessary, were later understood and found to be a great necessity for the Jews of today....
