Scholastic, Inc., reportedly the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, published and distributed a children’s book containing a map of the Middle East that omitted Israel.  The book, entitled Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt, is part of the children’s Geronimo Stilton series.  It was initially published in Italy and translated into […]

JBS (Jewish Broadcasting Service, formally Shalom TV) will be televising the 2014 Zionist Organization of America Dinner tonight, Dec. 8, 2014, from 7-9pm, featuring the words of Mort Klein, Alan Dershowitz, Mike Leven, Sen. Ted Cruz and Pastor John Hagee.  JBS President, Rabbi Mark S. Golub, concludes the program with interviews of ZOA Dinner Chairman, Bernie […]

In addition to the all-star line-up of speakers and honorees at the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) annual Louis D. Brandeis Dinner at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on November 23rd, the ZOA’s dinner guests enjoyed a lavish smorgasbord, followed by a full-course meal, including a sumptuous dessert buffet table.  What to do with all the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has declared its support for legislation under consideration in Jerusalem that formalizes Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish people. The ZOA holds that this is historically, legally, politically, and religiously the case. The Balfour Declaration, later incorporated into the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, recognizes the […]

Jewish life in New York is dominated by ritual. Holidays. A pastrami reuben on a hero at Katz’s. The reading of holy books in cycles that take a year (the Torah) or seven and a half years (the Talmud). And just as reliably, there’s the ritual of presidential candidates sniffing around for dough right after […]

A record crowd of over 1,100 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 116th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 23 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 261 student activists from various universities around the country.  Rising Republican star and possible future presidential […]

 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) voiced its support today for the written request made by a former U.S. Department of Justice official to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – that Mahmoud Abbas (a/k/a Abu Mazen), the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), be declared ineligible to enter the United States pursuant to the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) regards it as nothing less than a disgrace that President Barack Obama, in a short, emotionless statement, equated yesterday’s intentional barbaric murder of Jews in Jerusalem, who were hacked to death while praying in a synagogue, with the deaths of Palestinian Arabs killed in a war – initiated and […]

November 18, 2014 Dr. Patrick Gallagher, ChancellorUniversity of PittsburghOffice of the Chancellor107 Cathedral of Learning4200 Fifth AvenuePittsburgh, PA 15260 Dear Chancellor Gallagher:  We write on behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. whose mission includes fighting anti-Semitism, including Israel-bashing, in schools, textbooks […]

November 13, 2014 Dr. Subra Suresh, PresidentCarnegie Mellon University5000 Forbes AvenuePittsburgh, PA 15213 Dear President Suresh: We write on behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. whose mission includes fighting anti-Semitism, including Israel-bashing, in schools, textbooks and the media. We were troubled […]