sentences: "The Advocate" was founded by Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and founder of modern political Zionism.Having founded the Vienna newspaper "Die Welt" and the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, Herzl sent his executive secretary Jacob de Haas to Boston several years later to start a newspaper which would "inculcate Judaism into the community and progress the cause of the re-establishment of the Jewish faith and a Jewish state."