EBulletin for June 17, 2016
Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
We are very much looking forward to our “Evening With Ryan Bellerose” event this Monday evening in Center City. See the graphic below for all details.
While we have seen him on video and read articles by him and about him, we are told by people who have attended his talks just how powerful is his presentation in person – particularly to college students and young professionals who may be new to the cause of Israel and Zionism.
Tickets are still available – advance purchase encouraged via our Eventbrite page. If you are not able to attend, please consider sponsoring this event to help defray Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s costs. You can do so also at our Eventbrite page. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-ryan-bellerose-tickets-25869563561?aff=es2
General admission tickets are just $5.
Be sure to let your friends and social-media contacts know about this event.
Ryan is from Alberta, Canada, and there is no telling when or if he will be in our area again.
In addition, Greater Philadelphia ZOA is looking for someone to do us a favor by recording
this event for our Web site. We have a tripod available.
If you are able to do this for us, please call our Office at 610-660-9466.
Thank you.
This Monday Evening, Please Join Us For:
to Ryan Bellerose event sponsors Gene Shusman and Henry Frank
Thanks also to Mikveh Israel, MEOR, the Chevra and The Collaborative
for publicizing this event.
Greater Philadelphia ZOA Needs Volunteers
Philadelphia ZOA is looking for volunteers to help us with research, to make calls and participate in mailings in the 
coming weeks as we gear up for our biggest event of the year: The Annual Philadelphia ZOA Gala.
The Gala takes place on Sept. 15.
Some of the tasks can be done from your home or office. Mailings take place in the Bala Cynwyd vicinity.
If you can lend us some of your skills and time, please call our Office at 610-660-9466 and ask for Steve.
Thank you
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
You can join or renew online by clicking the donate/join tab above. Or you can call us at: 610-660-9466.
We value each and every member!
For a Happy Occasion or a Sad Occasion:
Send a Special Certificate from Greater Philadelphia ZOA
Do you have a Simcha to celebrate, or G-d forbid condolences to convey? Please consider
a certificate from Greater Philadelphia ZOA.
This classy, respectful and frameable certificate can be customized for nearly any occasion
and sent to a loved one or friend in exchange for a donation to our organization.
For details or to order one, call our Office at 610-660-9466.
An Event of Interest:
CUFI’s National “Night To Honor Israel”
Monday, July 18 in Washington
The good folks at Friends of Israel are sponsoring their annual bus trip to this dynamic event.
A bus will be leaving that afternoon from the Friends of Israel headquarters in Westville, N.J.
For all details and to register, call them at 800-257-7843. Ask for Jeanne or Lisa.
Website Aims to Expose Distortions in Reporting About Israel
June 14, 2016 By:
Jon Marks | JE Staff
The right words drive Lee Bender, Jerome Verlin and Steve Crane.
They want the rest of the world — and the media in particular — to understand that the language and terminology used in talking about Israel and the continuing conflict in the Middle East matters.
Four years ago, Bender and Verlin wrote a book called Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed from A-Z, in which they literally went through the alphabet showing what they consider inaccuracies in the language and distortion of the facts. Crane published it.
Now, they’ve launched a website.
Factsonisrael.com is aimed not only at explaining their position and detailing what they perceive as mistakes in the so-called mainstream media — publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer and outlets such as Associated Press, CNN, Fox News and others — but at providing a history lesson one click at a time.
The hope is that if enough people read it and see the misconceptions and misrepresentations they may be able to apply enough public pressure to change the narrative.
That’s the hope. They know reality may be a different story.
Read the rest of the article at: https://www.jewishexponent.com/headlines/2016/06/website-aims-to-expose-distortions-in-reporting-about-israel
EBulletin for June 10, 2016
Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
On Monday, June 20, you will have an opportunity to hear, see and meet an almost one-of-a-kind pro-Israel advocate as Greater Philadelphia ZOA brings in Ryan Bellerose for a presentation.
Ryan is a member of the Metis People, an indigenous People native to Canada. He has long been an activist on behalf of his own people and in recent years has taken up the cause of Israel and the Jewish People.
Ryan will be speaking on a subject that is not as apparent as it should be: that the Jewish People are indigenous to the land of Israel and are not “occupiers” or “colonizers,” as our enemies claim.
Come out and here this wonderful, dynamic speaker at 6:30 p.m. at Congregation Mikveh Israel, the synagogue of the American Revolution.
General admission tickets are just $5. There are also opportunities to be on the Host Committee and to sponsor this event.
See our “Thank You” banner later in this newsletter to see who has already stepped up to be a co-sponsor.
Advance tickets are available at Eventbrite.
See all the details in the graphic below, and the ticket link is below the graphic.
If you have any questions, call the Greater Philadelphia ZOA Office at 610-660-9466.
For tickets and to sponsor this event:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-ryan-bellerose-tickets-25869563561
Greater Philadelphia ZOA Needs Volunteers
Philadelphia ZOA is looking for volunteers to help us with research, to make calls and participate in mailings in the coming weeks as we gear up for our biggest event of the year: The Annual Philadelphia ZOA Gala.
The Gala takes place on Sept. 15.
Some of the tasks can be done from your home or office. Mailings take place in the Bala Cynwyd vicinity.
If you can lend us some of your skills and time, please call our Office at 610-660-9466 and ask for Steve.
Thank you
Philadelphia ZOA’s New Web site
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
You can join or renew online by clicking the donate/join tab above. Or you can call us at: 610-660-9466.
We value each and every member!
New ZOA Advocacy Workshop Available for
Groups Large and Small
There is adv
ocacy, and then there is “Strategic, Effective Advocacy” – the focus of a new Philadelphia ZOA workshop available to Jewish and Christian congregations, organizations and even smaller groups.
Learn how to be pro-active rather than re-active; find out how to be more effective on social media; amplify your message; make your advocacy count by contacting the people who matter.
It is a lively presentation with audience participation offering new ways to look at and to try to solve an old problem.
We recently rolled out this new workshop for an event for JCOR – the Jewish Community of Rhawnhurst and received good feedback.
If you would like to schedule this workshop or a speaker from our Speakers Bureau or host a parlor meeting, please see details in the two flyers below.
How Do We Counter BDS and Anti-Israel Media Bias?
How Do We Promote Jewish Rights to Our Land?
Bring ZOA’s Message and Knowledge To Your Friends and Neighbors
Host an Advocacy Workshop, ZOA Speaker or Parlor Meeting
If you are like most people, you have friends, neighbors and even relatives who do not quite understand what is taking place in one of the most pivotal regions in the world.
The Middle East is home to key U.S. allies and enemies; it is the focal point of much of the media; it is the source of most of the terrorism that plagues the world; it is where a large amount of American foreign aid is targeted and the source of much of the world’s oil. It is where our beloved Israel is trying to exist and thrive.
But the Middle East has become a muddled area to most Americans because of incomplete or biased coverage, plus a campaign of mis-education in schools and universities.
One of ZOA’s missions is to clarify the issues and to help Americans understand what is taking place in the Middle East and how it impacts them.
Help us fulfill this vital mission by hosting a parlor meeting in your home. A small gathering can make a huge difference.
Greater Philadelphia ZOA expresses our thanks to Gene Shusman and Henry Frank as co-sponsors of our upcoming “An Evening With Ryan Bellerose.”
There are still opportunities for you or your business to sponsor this event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-ryan-bellerose-tickets-25869563561
Greater Philadelphia ZOA expresses our thanks to Roberta Weiss, who volunteered at our recent Israel Advocacy Workshop and B’nai Israel.
When is Media Going to Treat Israelis as Indigenous?
By Lee Bender
June 6, 2016
WHEN IS THE MEDIA GOING TO TREAT ISRAEL AS AN, INDIGENOUS, ABORIGINAL FIRST NATION ?
WHEN JEWS ACT LIKE IT IS !!
Unbeknownst to most, Jews are a People, Judaism is their religion, and the Land of Israel is their ancestral homeland—an unbroken history of 3,500 years– and a modern nation since 1948. Indigenous people have the right to assert their native rights. And Israel has them in abundance, the deepest roots of any people in the land, whether the mainstream media, UN, EU, NGOs, Arabs, Muslims, Anti-Zionists or Anti-Semites want to believe it or not.
So, where do Jews get their title deed to the Land of Israel? From the Bible, archeological proof, and even the Qu’ran itself. And from modern international law via San Remo Conference in 1920, and subsequently the United Nations in 1947. Many Arab nations were also created at this time to give expression to their indigenous rights.
Interestingly, the Supreme Muslim Council – led by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husayni– Hitler’s ally and one of the Arab world’s most vicious anti-Semites — published yearly guide books from 1924-1950 stating that the Temple Mount’s (al-Haram al-Sharif, “the Noble Sanctuary”) “identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to the universal belief, on which David built there an altar unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.”
Despite being persecuted, tormented, conquered and dispersed from their nation-state numerous times throughout history by many including Greeks, Romans and OttomanTurks, the Jews never left the land of Israel, which was never ruled even one day by an Arab state.
In January 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed the Levy Commission to study the legal status of Israeli building in Judea and Samaria (i.e “the West Bank). In sum, it found: “Our basic conclusion is that from the point of view of international law, the classical laws of “occupation” as set out in the relevant international conventions cannot be considered applicable to the unique and sui generis historic and legal circumstances of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria spanning over decades.”
However, this Commission’s work has been marginalized by the Israeli government, in an appeasement to the sensitivities of the “international community” who do not recognize the sovereignty of Israel over the Land. This, of course, includes the areas to which Jews are told they have no rightful claim and yet are in the cradle of Jewish history: the Old City of Jerusalem, The Temple Mount and Kotel; Hebron, where the Tomb of the Patriarchs is located; Shilo, where the Tabernacle stood, Joseph’s Tomb and Rachel’s Tomb among many other sites.
Who are the “Palestinian Arabs?” The vast majority are not native to the land, and in fact cannot even trace their lineage back more than four or five generations. Most came from foreign regions only when the Jews started to rebuild and reclaim the land and make it flourish as an economic powerhouse starting at the turn of the 20th century. Until the formation of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in 1964, those Arabs who lived in Israel, Gaza and Judea and Samaria (i.e. the “West Bank” which was illegally annexed by Jordan in 1950) referred to themselves not as “Palestinians” but as Syrians or merely Arabs. These Arabs are little different in culture, religion and language than those from neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The term “Palestinian” to them and the world, before the re-establishment of the State of Israel, meant “Jews.” In fact, the Arabs of the Palestine Mandate already have a state: Jordan, comprising 78% of the Palestine Mandate, which was designated by the international community to be the nation-state of the Jewish People, has a population which is 2/3 Palestinian Arab. Moreover, the Arabs have rejected a state of their own, with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, the “West Bank” and Gaza six times since 1937.
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things which should be evident to us. According to Ryan Bellerose, a Metis from Northern Alberta and co-founder of Calgary United with Israel: “Everything that makes Jews Jewish — their spirituality, their traditions, their culture, their language, everything — it stems from Israel.” He elaborated further (“Unassailable” in Israellycool, Feb 14, 2016):
The reason Jewish identity is so integral to this struggle is simple – the other side is claiming that Israelis are not indigenous, that they are “white colonizers” who stole “Arab ancestral lands.” Now this claim is patently ridiculous to anyone with a 3rd grade education and a commensurate reading level, but sadly often the Jewish people’s own actions and reactions suggest that they themselves are not quite decolonized enough to claim their birthright and heritage. Many of them still see their identity through a white European lens, rather than a Middle Eastern lens, and this leads not only to massive confusion but lost opportunities such as the Temple Mount and now in Judea and Samaria.
I have documented Jewish indigenous status beyond any reasonable doubt. I have given you the language and hopefully the knowledge to defend the position, but YOU must internalize your identity. YOU must decide to decolonize and then YOU must decide what that means to YOU and your people.
It’s really simple – you are Jews, your culture is ancient, your traditions date back three thousand years and your spirituality is intertwined with both. Only you can decide what you should be keeping and what you need to lose, but ask yourself, what would my ancestors say? Would they say “You needed those things in diaspora, but now you are home again and it’s time to evolve and become who you are meant to be” or would they say “Stay as the diaspora made you out of necessity”? I believe you are meant to be a Light unto the Nations, to show us the way that indigenous people are supposed to evolve while maintaining the core of your identity. You have fought so hard to stay Jewish – literally hundreds of generations have lived and died to bring you to this point. Your ancestors fought, bled and died for you to remain Jews and even more recently for you to be able to go home as Jews to your ancestral lands. They didn’t do that so that you could be the end of it. They did it so that you could be the beginning, the beginning of a brave new world, one that is unassailable.
Now be invulnerable in your identity, then be invincible.
THAT is your birthright.
Unassailable.
As Ryan has noted, this is about our very identity, not merely about religion and spirituality. And it is a powerful story and example to all indigenous people. We should be proud and act proud of the nation state of the Jewish People, and all its accomplishments as it shares with the world its humanitarianism and high-tech know-how in medicine, biotechnology, agriculture, and water reclamation. Israel is our ancestral homeland. We do ourselves no favors if we don’t treat ourselves with respect and instead act wishy-washy and laissez-faire with regard to our rights. If we forfeit the language, we forfeit our heritage and our history—and deserve to.
Note: Ryan Bellerose will be speaking in Philadelphia on June 20. For details and tickets, call 610-660-9466.
See the article here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/8654#.V1WdTUyhiqU.email;
Chag Shavuot Sameach!
EBulletin for June 3, 2016
Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
You will notice some new things as you peruse our week-ending EBulletin this week including the results from our most recent Web site poll, and the fact that we have a new name.
We are excited as plans are firming up for our event with pro-Israel advocate Ryan Bellerose, who is coming in from Canada on June 20. Ryan has become a social-media sensation and he brings with him an important message and a bold, atypical attitude. See details below.
Meanwhile, we are still looking for volunteers and we are counting on you, our members and friends to help us. We have a series of large mailings coming up and we need people to make some calls.
Make sure you read the important new article from ZOA National President Mort Klein (below) that was published in this week’s Jewish Exponent.
Tickets will be available next week.
Be sure to tell your friends and encourage them to join you at this event:
Greater Philadelphia ZOA Needs Volunteers
Philadelphia ZOA is looking for volunteers to help us with research, to make calls and participate in mailings in the coming weeks as we gear 
up for our biggest event of the year: The Annual Philadelphia ZOA Gala.
The Gala takes place on Sept. 15.
Some of the tasks can be done from your home or office. Mailings take place in the Bala Cynwyd vicinity.
If you can lend us some of your skills and time, please call our Office at 610-660-9466 and ask for Steve.
Thank you
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
You can join or renew online by clicking the donate/join tab above. Or you can call us at: 610-660-9466.
We value each and every member!
The results from our last Web site poll:
New ZOA Advocacy Workshop Available for
Groups Large and Small
There is advocacy, and then there is “Strategic, Effective Advocacy” – the focus of a new Philadelphia ZOA workshop available to Jewish and Christian congregations, organizations and even smaller groups.
Learn how to be pro-active rather than re-active; find out how to be more effective on social media; amplify your message; make your advocacy count by contacting the people who matter.
It is a lively presentation with audience participation offering new ways to look at and to try to solve an old problem.
We recently rolled out this new workshop for an event for JCOR – the Jewish Community of Rhawnhurst and received good feedback.
If you would like to schedule this workshop or a speaker from our Speakers Bureau or host a parlor meeting, please see details in the two flyers below.
How Do We Counter BDS and Anti-Israel Media Bias?
How Do We Promote Jewish Rights to Our Land?
Bring ZOA’s Message and Knowledge To Your Friends and Neighbors
Host an Advocacy Workshop, ZOA Speaker or Parlor Meeting
If you are like most people, you have friends, neighbors and even relatives who do not quite understand what is taking place in one of the most pivotal regions in the world.
The Middle East is home to key U.S. allies and enemies; it is the focal point of much of the media; it is the source of most of the terrorism that plagues the world; it is where a large amount of American foreign aid is targeted and the source of much of the world’s oil. It is where our beloved Israel is trying to exist and thrive.
But the Middle East has become a muddled area to most Americans because of incomplete or biased coverage, plus a campaign of mis-education in schools and universities.
One of ZOA’s missions is to clarify the issues and to help Americans understand what is taking place in the Middle East and how it impacts them.
Help us fulfill this vital mission by hosting a parlor meeting in your home. A small gathering can make a huge difference.
Israel Officials’ Inaccurate Name-Calling Boon for Israel’s Enemies
June 1, 2016 By:
Morton A. Klein
Israeli leaders are shooting themselves in their PR foot. There is something wrong with the tone and language of political debate in Israel. It would seem from the events of recent days — in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, into the governing coalition and thereby replacing Moshe Yaalon as defense minister — that Israeli political leaders have no idea how to conduct appropriate political discourse. Instead, in their seething anger at their colleagues or opponents, they have been engaging in abusive, emotional, inaccurate and baseless language that will prove a gift to Palestinian Arab Israel-bashers, pro-BDS anti-Semites, Israel-hating journalists and other Jew-hating propagandists.
While this list is not exhaustive, it’s enough to give an idea of what is going on:
- Tzipi Livni, the former opposition leader, Kadima leader and foreign minister, now a Zionist Union MK, described the government as “evil.”
- Isaac Herzog, leader of the Labor opposition, who had just ended talks to join the Netanyahu government, lambasted the prime minister thus, “You are beholden to the most extremist elements and we will fight you and them.”
- Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak warned in recent days against a “hostile takeover of the Israeli government by dangerous elements” and of Israel being “infected by the seeds of fascism.”
- Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan stated in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that he is frightened by “the abhorrent processes that took place in Europe, and Germany in particular, some 70, 80 or 90 years ago, and finding manifestations of these processes here among us in 2016.”
- Yaalon, normally a careful and understated politician, in leaving the government felt it necessary to describe what is happening in Israel as “manifestations of extremism, violence and racism,” which he says are even “trickling into the armed forces.”
Accordingly, Israel’s enemies can now use against Israel the absurd, hysterical words of prominent Israeli officials that Israel is a racist, evil, extreme and fascist state verging on Nazism.
These are emotional and ridiculous political utterances —not substantive, factual statements. Israel is a rule of law, human rights-observing society; its armed forces are the most painstakingly upright and ethical in the world; and its Arab minority is enfranchised and Israel’s highest leaders are accountable to the law. Arabs, Christians and gays have full and equal rights, far different from the human rights-abusing situation in Arab states in the Middle East. But these utterances will be remembered and used, not by Israelis participating in heated Israeli internal debates, but by external defamers, who have now been given rich source material.
At a time when Israel is fighting the anti-Semitism of BDS, these officials lend fuel to that movement, as well as to the increasingly virulent hostility of journalists and of many nations and the United Nations.
It is no secret that many people in Israeli public life, not least Netanyahu, have disagreements with Lieberman. His contentious ideas include creating a Palestinian state that incorporates Israeli Arabs in neighboring border areas of Israel, while incorporating Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that border Israel into the Jewish state. And some are critical of his call for the death penalty for terrorists and his call for destroying the terrorist group Hamas, whose charter calls for murdering every Jew, while having launched tens of thousands of missiles against Israeli civilians. Isn’t the United States waging a campaign to destroy the so-called Islamic State, even though it operates elsewhere, whereas Hamas operates on Israel’s doorstep?
Some of these ideas are open to debate, but so are most everyone else’s. Israel’s predicament is not a simple one, and no one has advanced a political proposal for peace that doesn’t incorporate difficult or controversial ideas.
The proper way for Israeli leaders to deal with views with which they disagree is to explain to the public why they believe they will not lead to peace, and to persuade them that they have better ideas that will — not to malign the country and some of its leaders with ugly and inaccurate name-calling.
How painfully bizarre that some of these very same Israeli leaders ignore Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ alliance with Hamas or his speeches and actions inciting anti-Semitic violence and support of BDS; instead, they call him a “moderate,” and use inappropriate, baseless and vitriolic terms about their own leaders and government.
These senior Israeli figures have been unintentionally benefitting the work of the Jewish state’s deligitimizers and enemies. Imagine the boost the BDS campaign — whose raison d’être is defaming and ending the State of Israel — will get from quoting these words for their own purposes.
Critics of the Israeli government would be well-advised to pause to consider the use to which their words can be put and to adjust their language accordingly. It is a basic test of public relations prudence that these leading Israel figures failed this past week. As the Torah teaches: Words are so powerful a mountain can hang by the thread of a single word.
Morton A. Klein is the president of the Zionist Organization of America.
EBulletin for May 27, 2016
Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
Philadelphia ZOA is looking for volunteers to help us with research, to make calls and participate in mailings in the coming weeks as we gear up for our biggest event of the year: The Annual Philadelphia ZOA Gala.
The Gala takes place on Sept. 15.
Some of the tasks can be done from your home or office. Mailings take place in the Bala Cynwyd vicinity.
If you can lend us some of your skills and time, please call our Office at 610-660-9466 and ask for Steve.
Thank you
Philadelphia ZOA’s New Web site
Congratulations: You have found our new Web site.
The Web site is packed with features, so be sure to check it out. Take part in our survey or enjoy a quiz, see advocacy fact sheets plus find contact information for local lawmakers, world leaders and area media outlets to help you do even more advocacy on behalf of Israel.
The Web site includes a blog that you will be able to participate in with comments. Plus there are links to our Youtube page as well as a National ZOA news feed.
If you have any suggestions for surveys, questions and quizzes for our Web site or other content suggestions, feel free to email them to us at [email protected].
Please be sure to let your friends and contacts know about the new Philadelphia ZOA Web site and encourage them to check it out.
New ZOA Advocacy Workshop Available for Groups Large and Small
There is advocacy, and then there is “Strategic, Effective Advocacy” – the focus of a new Philadelphia ZOA workshop available to Jewish and Christian congregations, organizations and even smaller groups.
Learn how to be pro-active rather than re-active; find out how to be more effective on social media; amplify your message; make your advocacy count by contacting the people who matter.
It is a lively presentation with audience participation offering new ways to look at and to try to solve an old problem.
We recently rolled out this new workshop for an event for JCOR – the Jewish Community of Rhawnhurst and received good feedback.
If you would like to schedule this workshop or a speaker from our Speakers Bureau or host a parlor meeting, please see details in the two flyers below.
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
You can join or renew online by clicking the donate/join tab above. Or you can call us at: 610-660-9466.
We value each and every member!
How Do We Counter BDS and Anti-Israel Media Bias?
How Do We Promote Jewish Rights to Our Land?
Bring ZOA’s Message and Knowledge To Your Friends and Neighbors
Host an Advocacy Workshop, ZOA Speaker or Parlor Meeting
If you are like most people, you have friends, neighbors and even relatives who do not quite understand what is taking place in one of the most pivotal regions in the world.
The Middle East is home to key U.S. allies and enemies; it is the focal point of much of the media; it is the source of most of the terrorism that plagues the world; it is where a large amount of American foreign aid is targeted and the source of much of the world’s oil. It is where our beloved Israel is trying to exist and thrive.
But the Middle East has become a muddled area to most Americans because of incomplete or biased coverage, plus a campaign of mis-education in schools and universities.
One of ZOA’s missions is to clarify the issues and to help Americans understand what is taking place in the Middle East and how it impacts them.
Help us fulfill this vital mission by hosting a parlor meeting in your home. A small gathering can make a huge difference.
EBulletin for May 20, 2016
We are thrilled to announce our new Web site is now live. We are now part of the National ZOA Web network. The new Web site is a great tool and resource to advance Zionism and support for Israel. Please check it out at http://philly.zoa.org/
Make sure that you bookmark our page.
The new Web site will include both national and local pro-Israel news; our weekly EBulletin newsletter; a blog with posts by our co-presidents and executive director; a direct link to our Youtube channel; a variety of advocacy resources, fact sheets and background information and contact information for lawmakers, media and U.S. and Israeli leaders; and more to come – all designed to make advocacy, education and outreach for each of you easier.
One of the new features of our Web site will be an alternating poll and quiz.
Currently, a poll is up, with the question: “Where do you get most of your news about Israel from?” There are a number of options to choose from.
At the “take action” tab are electronic versions of some of the flyers we give out at meetings.
You can also check out photos from some of our recent events, and videos from our Galas plus the promotional video for “Past & Present.”
Be sure to let your contacts know about our new Web site, and encourage them to use it.
If you have suggestions for other features you would like to see on our Web site, please contact us to let us know.
Coming Up This Wednesday in NE Philly
Master Pro-Israel Advocacy
You MUST RSVP for the workshop so that organizers can have an adequate amount of food. RSVP to: [email protected]
Volunteer for ZOA
Often, Philadelphia ZOA needs help at events, or with tasks in the office or mailings. There are times we need people to 
make calls or to research information on the Web which can be done from home. We are compiling a roster of volunteers who are willing to help out with these various needs that we have from time-to-time. If you would like to be included among a list of regular volunteers who we can reach out to when a need arises, please send us an email at: [email protected]. Thank you.
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
You can join or renew online by clicking the link below. Or you can call us at: 610-660-9466.
We value each and every member!
https://zoa.org/donate/philly/
How Do We Counter BDS and Anti-Israel Media Bias?
How Do We Promote Jewish Rights to Our Land?
Bring ZOA’s Message and Knowledge To Your Friends and Neighbors
Host an Advocacy Workshop, ZOA Speaker or Parlor Meeting
If you are like most people, you have friends, neighbors and even relatives who do not quite understand what is taking place in one of the most pivotal regions in the world.
The Middle East is home to key U.S. allies and enemies; it is the focal point of much of the media; it is the source of most of the terrorism that plagues the world; it is where a large amount of American foreign aid is targeted and the source of much of the world’s oil. It is where our beloved Israel is trying to exist and thrive.
But the Middle East has become a muddled area to most Americans because of incomplete or biased coverage, plus a campaign of mis-education in schools and universities.
One of ZOA’s missions is to clarify the issues and to help Americans understand what is taking place in the Middle East and how it impacts them.
Help us fulfill this vital mission by hosting a parlor meeting in your home. A small gathering can make a huge difference.