Nachum Hosted Michael Kessler, President of JNF’s Long Island Board of Directors on this morning’s JM in the AM to discuss the latest JNF news and to preview the JNF’s 2016 National Conference. This year’s conference will be taking place in New York City over the weekend of September 16-19 at the New York Hilton Midtown. “Jewish National Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 1901. It all started with a dream. Theodor Herzl, a Viennese journalist, witnessed virulent anti-Semitism at the Dreyfus trial. He knew it was time to take action, and was determined that before the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland came to an end, a national fund would be established to purchase land for a Jewish State in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.”