Toronto lawyer shares his passion for Theodor Herzl [Video]

HALIFAX – Inspiration has been a byword for 55-year-old Toronto lawyer David Matlow since he was a preteen.

That’s when he first discovered Zionism while writing a school play. It was the moment he became fascinated with Theodor Herzl and the man’s passion for a Jewish homeland, an inspiration for Matlow that continues today.

While presenting a documentary film in Halifax on Yom Ha’atzmaut, Matlow, who produced the film, opened up about his passion for anything Herzl and his collection of nearly 3,000 pieces of Herzl memorabilia that fills most of the rooms in his house.

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“I want to inspire people that anything’s possible. As Herzl famously said, ‘If you will it, it is no dream.’ He was a normal person, with pitfalls and foibles, but a guy who had an idea for a Jewish state, way back in the late 1800s. He wrote about it in 1896, held conferences about it …