Sitting in a classroom at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a group of some 30 North American undergraduate students watched a news flash broadcast on the aggressive behavior taken by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement on US campuses.As the report concluded, the students, on a two-week organized trip by the Zionist Organization of America, huddled […]

ZOA praised at 23 minute mark. For viewing please click HERE.  

It is the correct decision for the state of New Jersey to join nine other states and enact S1923/A925, legislation calling for the divestment of state pension funds from companies engaged in boycott of Israel and Israeli business.The legislation serves both as an important anti-discrimination provision, and it protects and promotes New Jersey’s robust trade […]

Uncertainty will continue to hound millions of immigrant families after the Supreme Court failed Thursday to reach a decision on the legality of President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration, pro-immigrant Jewish groups say.Texas, along with 25 other states, challenged Obama’s 2014 immigration policy deferring deportation for certain undocumented immigrants, saying it violated the Constitution’s […]

Hate has infiltrated my beloved alma mater, University of Michigan. Like my alumni friends, it’s hard for me to fathom that the hate on campus is directed toward people like me, a Jew and a supporter of Israel. We, the Jewish community, must show the university that we care about each other, our safety, and […]

The Jewish world, both in Israel and the Diaspora, is undergoing dramatic demographic and ideological changes.The past decades have witnessed a steep decline in the power and influence of Diaspora Jews. Israel’s centrality to Jewish life and the ties which link Jews in the Diaspora to Israel are facing considerable stress.Yet Israel has clearly emerged […]

As many Jewish groups jump on board a push for laws to penalize businesses and groups boycotting Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, long considered a pillar of the Jewish establishment, is not just standing back — it has been opposing the tide.And now, it’s taking flack for this.In a press release calling ADL’s opposition to such […]

The State Department is using American taxpayer dollars to finance Palestinian Arabs celebrating violent attacks on Israelis and advocating a boycott of Israel and the division of its capital city.Where’s the outrage?Not in the New York Times, which treats the topic as subject for a light-toned feature article about what it describes as a Palestinian […]

The confusion and uncertainty arising from the presidential election campaign, together with the hostility generated over the new Israeli coalition, has emboldened a number of prominent Jewish progressives to initiate a new crusade implicitly criticizing the security policies of the democratically elected Israeli government. Their actions threaten bipartisan support for the Jewish state which has […]

As reported by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: The Pittsburgh District of the Zionist Organization of America has long believed a trip to Israel helps Jewish Students feel the history of the Jewish people and to cement their Jewish identity. The ZOA Israel Scholarship Committee was established in 1962, and since then hundreds of Pittsburgh Jewish high […]