Category ZOA in the news
ZOA’s Tuchman Interview in Church of England Newspaper

Interview Series: With Susan Tuchman, Esq., on anti-Semitic attitudes and practices, American universities Posted by Peter Menkin  INTRODUCTION BY THE RELIGION WRITER PETER MENKIN TO THE SERIES The multi part series I’ve been working on since July, 2012 came to an end in November, 2012. I expect to continue to post this series on the Jewish […]

ZOA in Jewish World about ZOA Dinner

        OUT & ABOUT at the Zionist Organization of America Justice Brandeis Award Dinner   By Gabe Kahn   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the U.S., presented Sheldon Adelson with the Theodor Herzl Gold Medallion. Adelson, chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, was […]

JTA Article about ZOA and Carter

  ZOA: Jimmy Carter, unforgiven   By Ami Eden · January 13, 2010 The Zionist Organization of America and its leader, Morton Klein, have rejected President Jimmy Carter’s apology to the Jewish community for anyway he may have helped “stigmatize” Israel. Twice. In its first statement on the matter, ZOA rejected the apology: The Zionist Organization of America […]

ZOA letter in Bost. Jewish Advocate about the ADL

    ZOA: ADL was MIA   When it comes to fighting Muslim intimidation of Jewish students, the Anti-Defamation League’s leadership has not merely been lacking; it has undermined the Zionist Organization of America’s legal effort to fix the problem (Charles Jacobs’ “Where’s Our Leadership?,” Dec. 31). For years, a Muslim group at the University […]

Article Overlooked ZOA Dinner’s Spirit

I was surprised that your article about the Zionist Organization of America’s national dinner omitted important aspects of the event and misrepresented others (“From the Right: ZOA Faithful Challenge Israelis on Freeze,” December 25). For example, the article made no mention of the keynote speech by House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, who spoke powerfully about […]

ZOA Letter in The Forward About ZOA National Dinner

    Letters Published January 06, 2010, issue of January 15, 2010 Article Overlooked ZOA Dinner’s Spirit I was surprised that your article about the Zionist Organization of America’s national dinner omitted important aspects of the event and misrepresented others (“From the Right: ZOA Faithful Challenge Israelis on Freeze,” December 25). For example, the article […]

Impossible burden

  There’s nothing “shocking” about the position that the Zionist Organization of America, the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, the Orthodox Union, and Agudath Israel of America have taken in a case now pending before the Supreme Court, regarding whether foreign government officials should be immune from civil lawsuits for actions taken in […]

From ‘holiday’ to ‘Chanukah,’ a busy week in D.C.

        From ‘holiday’ to ‘Chanukah,’ a busy week in D.C.   By Ron Kampeas · December 21, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — The incumbent president called it a “holiday,” until he called it “Chanukah,” and a few Jews wondered if their fellows weren’t being oversensitive about it. A former president asked for “Al […]

Hands Across the Ocean

    by Rachel Saperstein 01/01/10 Winter break can be a time for helping others. Even complicated logistics can work if people care. A story about a US businessman, a group of college students on tour and some very happy children from families who were expelled from the Katif Bloc. The Jewish college students arrived […]

ZOA Quoted in Left-Wing College Magazine

    States of Denial   December 31, 2009        On a hot day in Vienna in August 1925, Arthur Ruppin ascended the podium at the Fourteenth Zionist Congress and declared, “Palestine will be a state of two nations. Gentlemen, this is a fact.”Earlier that year, Ruppin, Martin Buber, and other Zionist leaders […]