Science begins with the discovery of regularities. A regular feature of all Islamic “suicide” terrorists is a declared love of death. For us in the West, such declared affections must seem intuitively suspect. After all, they are contrary to everything we normally believe about self-preservation, reason and human behavior. But a different vantage point is […]

The ZOA is urging everyone to stay away from the new Stephen Spielberg film ‘Munich,’ after condemning the film as not only promoting fiction as fact but also having promoted a moral equivalence between Arab terrorist and Israelis who want to vanquish those terrorists. ‘Munich’ is a fictionalization of the events that followed the murder […]

This past week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Kadima electoral list suffered two major setbacks. Taken together, the blows present the Likud with its first realistic chance to make a significant dent in public support for Kadima and to move much of that support to the Likud. The first blow came with MK Binyamin Netanyahu’s election […]

John Bolton, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, may very well be Israel’s greatest friend in the US government. Last Sunday, in a glittering ballroom at a New York hotel, Bolton gave the keynote speech at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner. Bolton’s address was refreshingly blunt. He pulled no punches in his criticism […]

As the Monitor noted back in July, “alarm bells went off like crazy when Steven Spielberg hired Tony Kushner last year to rewrite the script of a movie about Israel’s clandestine — and lethal — response to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.” The Monitor found cause for concern because Kushner […]

By Rebbetzen Esther Jungreis From A Jew Living In France Dear Friends: My book, “The Committed Life“ is, Baruch Hashem, available in five languages, and is now being translated into French. I find every translation very exciting because, each one opens new doors to reach the hearts of our people throughout the world. However, there […]

The U.S. and other Western nations respect independence, strength and conviction. Senator Packwood from Oregon recalled “a statement of courage like I have never seen in my life.” Responding to a senator who told Menachem Begin: “Don’t tell us we can’t question your actions, Mr. Prime Minister. We’re footing the bill.” Begin replied: “Don’t threaten […]

You’ve all heard of Arab traders. They are famous throughout the world. It’s not an ethnic stereotype. It’s a cultural reality. I say this as an American of Arabic heritage – someone with close to 30 years of journalistic experience covering this part of the world. Just when you think you have finally struck a […]

New York – The ZOA has praised the efforts by the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, to strongly support Israel and see that the U.N. adopts a more principled approach to Israel. This week, Ambassador Bolton criticized the U.N. Security Council for failing to condemn Monday’s terrorist attack in Netanya, which killed […]

The majority of American Jewish leaders should be held accountable for gross misconduct, because their callous indifference to human suffering and injustice now amounts to criminal negligence. Speaking in the name of the Jewish community, this leadership has violated Jewish religious teachings to bear witness to the truth and to show compassion for the persecuted. […]