The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued the following release: On the final full day of Donald Trump’s presidential term, the ZOA wishes to thank President Trump, Secretary Mike Pompeo, Ambassador David Friedman, and the entire Trump administration for their accomplishments and work on behalf of all the American people, including the Jewish and pro-Israel […]

Several left-wing Jewish groups have filed a petition to initiate the removal of the Zionist Organization of America from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston in the latest battle being waged between ZOA and liberal members of American Jewish community. The petition—filed by 21 JCRC Council members, including 11 representatives from the Workmen’s […]

Amid all the recent political turmoil, with the possibility of yet another national election looming on the horizon, a remarkable statement made earlier this week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went largely unnoticed. In a Channel 20 television interview on Monday, the premier was asked about the prospects of extending Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, a […]

Mort Klein, who has served for nearly three decades as head of the Zionist Organization of America, has achieved a name recognition in the Jewish world that goes beyond the United States. Klein has been in the news recently for his outspoken opposition to Black Lives Matter, his conflicts with liberal Jewish leaders and even […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The recent revelations about Islamic Relief Worldwide (“IRW”) trustee and director Heshmat Khalifa’s antisemitic Facebook posts should serve as a reminder that HIAS should end HIAS’s “partnerships” and “collaborations” […]

Prominent leaders of Philadelphia’s Jewish community called for the resignation of the president of the city’s NAACP chapter after he shared an antisemitic post on his Facebook page, local ABC News affiliate WPVI reported. In a post that has since been deleted, the NAACP Philadelphia chapter’s president Rodney Muhammad allegedly shared an image of rapper Ice […]

Ice Cube had an almost-two-hour conversation with Zionist Organization of America national president Mort Klein following recent anti-Semitic tweets by the rapper and film actor. Klein told JNS on Tuesday that a mutual friend, whom Klein declined to specifically name for privacy reasons, told him that Ice Cube (whose real name is O’Shea Jackson) didn’t like being […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The ZOA praises Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his statement at this morning’s press briefing confirming that Israel’s exercise of sovereignty over the historic and lawful Jewish lands of Judea-Samaria is an Israel decision.  Secretary Pompeo […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers for objecting to Twitter’s policy of allowing Hamas and Hezbollah – both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations– to post content on the social media platform. In a September 17, 2019 letter to the CEOs of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, U.S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer […]

When I arrived in America, in New York, in 1955, it was particularly comfortable being openly Jewish. Public schools were closed on Jewish holidays, and the Jewish milieu was evident. I came to Massachusetts in 1960 to attend MIT. It was my first encounter with a varied American population, and yet the Jewish current was […]