On Thursday evening, February 28th, Jeff Daube, Director of the Zionist Organization of America’s Israel office, together with Dana Barnett of Israel Academia Monitor, conducted a seminar for 20 Israeli Hebrew University students at the SIACH Center in Jerusalem. The three-hour seminar was designed to acquaint Israeli university students with the problem of anti-Israel rhetoric […]

  Why Do We Fawn Upon John Hagee? The Hour By Leonard FeinJewish Daily Forward, Mon. Mar 03, 2008 Of politics, bedfellows and such: The dustup over evangelical Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement of Senator John McCain would not have attracted the attention it did had it not come in the wake of the Tim Russert-provoked […]

  (Some) Jews Against Obama [from the March 24, 2008 issue of The Nation] by Eric Alterman During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series […]

Blog The Wilder Way by David Wilder   Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com 18 Adar 5768, 2/24/2008 The ZOA in Israel – A Landmark Event Today in Jerusalem It didn’t take long to realize that Mort Klein is, without doubt, one of the heroes of present-day Jewry. ZOA ANNOUNCES OPENING OF NEWJERUSALEM/ISRAEL OFFICE Many years ago I had […]

By Greer Fay Cashman , THE JERUSALEM POST Jeff Daube, the director of the newly established Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America, has not let being arrested shortly after settling in Jerusalem deter him from staying in the country. On Sunday, Daube gave his first press conference in his new capacity, officially announcing […]

By Dina Kraft, Jewish Telegraphic Agency The question of what role Diaspora Jews should play in Israel-Palestinian negotiations over Jerusalem was a major part of the discussion during the annual mission to Israel of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Published: 02/24/2008 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The object of 2,000 years of Jewish […]

By Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles An anti-Israel speaker praises suicide bombers. Posters display Nazi symbols, anti-Israel slogans and the Israeli flag with blood dripping from the Magen David. A Muslim student says “F—- Israel,” drops his drawers and shows his swastika tattoo to a non-Jewish student. Such allegations, […]

by Leah Morse (IsraelNN.com) “Mahmoud Abbas is a fraud and not interested in peace,” said Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), in an interview with Arutz Sheva at the fifth annual Jerusalem Conference. “He is just trying to get as much as he can through negotiations that he could not get […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Despite slush-filled roads, the fifth annual Jerusalem Conference began as scheduled Tuesday morning as light snow blanketed the city. The conference hall was filled to capacity. Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are the opening keynote speakers of the two-day conference, which is taking place at the Regency […]

By Dr. Michael Goldblatt and Dr. Daniel Mandel Op-Ed, as posted in The Jewish Press If you think one side in a conflict is under no moral or legal obligation to send supplies to the population of the other, you have not heard what The New York Times or Human Rights Watch’s Joel Stork have […]