Participants on Israel trips organized through Taglit-Birthright will no longer be able to visit the Western Wall on Shabbat due to security concerns connected to the wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks, The Jerusalem Post has learned.   Organizations running trips under the Birthright umbrella have been told they can no longer allow their participants to walk […]

The State Department has asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to fund UNESCO – the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization – even though this is currently against the law. The law states that the U.S. may not pay dues to any UN organization that grants the PLO full membership […]

President Obama’s address to the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday was a “frightening disgrace,” said the head of a major US Jewish group on Monday. In a harshly worded statement, Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), slammed what he called “Obama’s terrorism speech” and listed what he considered […]

Donald Trump joked about Jewish stereotypes, declined to affirm his support for a united Jerusalem, and told his audience they wouldn’t back him because he did not want their money. Reading from a prepared text, Ben Carson repeatedly pronounced the name of the Palestinian group “Hamas” as if it were a delicious spread made with […]

J. recently published a “Local Voice” by U.C. Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks, responding to a letter from Morton A. Klein, of the Zionist Organization of America, and Susan B. Tuchman, of the ZOA Center for Law and Justice. Dirks’ column and the original letter concerned an Oct. 15 demonstration at U.C. Berkeley organized by Students […]

To the Editor:   French President Francois Hollande is correct to describe the barbaric attacks in Paris this month as an “act of war”.  WJW identifies the need to confront the evil these atrocities represent (“The real fight against evil”, Editorial, Nov. 19).   The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and its affiliate, the JCRC, […]

The enemy is not Islam. Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, wants to be clear that we recognize the enemy as “militant Islam.” The keynote speaker at the Louis Brandeis award dinner of the Zionist Organization of America on Nov. 22 at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, Dermer warned that Muslim terrorist groups […]

The lineup of speakers at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual Louis D. Brandeis Awards dinner at the Grand Hyatt in NY Sunday evening, turned out to serve as the perfect venue for venting about Israel’s standing in the world and the offering of suggestions about the U.S. conducting the war on terror in the […]

An employer who had intended to give a salaried position to Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard retracted the offer Monday, because the conditions of his parole would have prevented him from doing his job.  Pollard received an offer to become a research analyst in the finance department of a respected investment firm. But his parole conditions require him […]

Taking center stage at what organizers dubbed an all-star night of Zionist heroes, Israeli envoy Ron Dermer called on the international community to wage war against “militant Islam” and simultaneously cautioned his audience against viewing Islam itself as the enemy. Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, issued his declaration Sunday night during his keynoteaddress at […]