The Trump effect already has transformed the organized Jewish community from A to Z — literally. That is, it has changed who’s in and who’s out in terms of White House preference, from the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), a legacy institution now more in the role of outsider given its feisty readiness to openly criticize […]

The first two weeks of US President Donald Trump’s administration have been more active than those of any president in recent memory. The unprecedented executive orders, not to mention the initial exchanges with other heads of state, have generated headlines that under normal circumstances could have filled the daily news cycle for several months. The […]

Mort Klein knows the grim truth, that the Jews are a “nation that dwells alone.” But he never quite figured how alone he, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, would be among the Jews when it came to his support for the president’s immigration policy now roiling the nation. In the wake of […]

President Trump and his advisers, venturing for the first time into the fraught world of Middle East peacemaking, are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock. The emerging approach mirrors the thinking of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who […]

The left’s confusion about what constitutes “morality” compels us to explain why President Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States” is a moral act, and why the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has been speaking out in support of this executive order. Most Americans agree with the […]

The left’s confusion about what constitutes “morality” compels us to respond to Forward editor Jane Eisner’s criticism of Zionist Organization of America because ZOA supports President Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States.” Most Americans, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, agree with ZOA: Americans overwhelmingly favor Trump’s […]

The Zionist Organization of America’s National President Morton Klein recently visited South Florida where he condemned what he believes is an anti-Semitic United Nations Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements. UNSC Resolution 2334, adopted on Dec. 23, 2016, states that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no […]

The Republican Jewish Coalition and the Zionist Organization of America have tried really hard to stay on Mr. Trump’s good side. During the campaign, when Trump supporters unloaded vicious anti-Semitic invectives on journalists, the Republican Jewish Coalition condemned expressions of hate by supporters of all candidates. The Zionist Organization of America latched on to Mr. […]

Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, took the helm of a declining organization in 1993 and blew new life into it with his robust championing of Israel. In an interview with The Jewish Press, Klein shared his views and visions concerning the ZOA and Israel. The Jewish Press: How did you […]