Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

We hope that our newsletter this week finds you and your loved ones well. For those who are ill, we wish for you a refuah shlema.

Our Media Action Guide Updated

The Iran deal, the “peace process,” the International Criminal Court, Israel’s upcoming elections, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the BDS movement, false accusations of medical “apartheid” – these topics and more will continue to be in the news media in the weeks and months ahead, and supporters of Israel can make a difference by being in touch with media decision-makers and by submitting letters to the editor. Contact editors and news directors and politely, calmly and concisely explain the fallacies and/or missing facts in their reports. Submit letters to the editor to explain context and dispute claims. And remember to be pro-active also to tout the many positive aspects of Israel or to let the media know about what Israel’s enemies are doing. Both of these are often unreported. Please see our updated Media Action Guide for contact information for dozens of news outlets at:

https://philly.zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/03/MEDIA-ACTION-GUIDE-February-2021.pdf

Be sure to check out and use our many other advocacy resources on our Website under the “Take Action” tab at www.philly.zoa.org

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Be sure to watch part three of the Judea Samaria Virtual Mega Event this Sunday at 11 am EST. See details and link to register below. Pre-registration is a must!

Buy Israel for Pesach!

If you have been in a supermarket in the past couple of weeks, depending on where you live and where you shop, you have noticed that the kosher-for-Passover foods are available for purchase. Each year (again, depending on where you shop) there is a wider array of goods to buy. Please consider buying as many goods produced in Israel as possible and also please thank the store manager for carrying so many products from Israel. You know about the boycotts that are a pillar of the BDS movement. You can start a “BUYCOTT” among your friends and family and enjoy the bounty from our homeland. If the stores where you shop do not carry goods from Israel, ask the store manager to consider selling them – and then be sure to purchase them.

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Send checks payable to ZOA to: ZOA, PO Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

Thank you in advance!

The fourth installment in the series takes place this Sunday, March 7, at 11 AM EST. Pre-registration is a MUST!

Register at THIS special link: https://tickchak.co.il/15223

 

 

 

Let’s Talk About Zionism, Israel and ZOA – From the Comfort of Your Home:

Your questions answered about advocacy, Middle East history, Zionism, the peace process, media bias and ZOA in a one-on-one conversation.

Call our office at 610-660-9466 to make an appointment for a virtual coffee via Zoom with Executive Director Steve Feldman.

 

 

 

 

 

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

We hope that our weekly newsletter finds you and your loved ones well, and for those who are ill, we hope you will be granted a refuah shlema.

Last week we emailed/posted on social media the link for Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s updated “Contacting Congress” advocacy resource. Today we make available a companion piece, Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s updated “Contacting Leaders” advocacy resource, which has contact information for U.S. and Israel officials as well as for the United Nations. Please make use of it – especially pro-actively – and let others know about it. Remember: When contacting anyone with regard to pro-Israel advocacy, always be respectful. “Contacting Leaders” is one of the items at the “Take Action” tab on our Web site: www.philly.zoa.org. While there, please check out the many informational, educational and advocacy resources on our website and please let your social media contacts and friends know about them as well.

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If you spot a blatant example of anti-Israel media bias, misinformation or deception, please bring it to our attention so that we can show it to others, point out the bias and have our members and supporters engage in pro-Israel advocacy. Contact the Greater Philadelphia ZOA Office at 610-660-9466 or email us at [email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greater Philadelphia ZOA deeply appreciates the generous support of individuals, families, foundations, organizations, businesses and service providers who participated in our 2020 Gala Ad Journal and Tribute Book with an ad or notice.

If you have not yet had an opportunity to read the warm and thoughtful messages and to see the ads, please do so at your leisure at this link: https://zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Greater-Philadelphia-ZOA-Tribute-Journal-2020.pdf

Please see the list of businesses and service providers above. Please patronize/support these businesses and let them know that you saw their ad in the ZOA Gala Ad Journal!

https://zoa.org/donate/philly/

Send checks payable to ZOA to: ZOA, PO Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

Thank you in advance!

Last week’s Greater Philadelphia ZOA newsletter featured a Zionist Knowledge Quiz to challenge your trivia base – although these are not trivial topics. If you have not yet had the chance to take the quiz, it is still available on our Survey Monkey page.

Take the quiz at your leisure, and be sure to share it with others so that they can learn, too!

Click/share the link below to start.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KYQCJ8G

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

We hope that our weekly newsletter finds you and your loved ones well, and for those who are ill, we hope you will be granted a refuah shlema.

In the past, from time-to-time, Greater Philadelphia ZOA has offered a Zionist Knowledge Quiz to challenge your trivia base – although these are not trivial topics. Here is another such quiz for your enjoyment/information.

Take the quiz at your leisure, and be sure to share it with others so that they can learn, too!

Click/share the link below to start.

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KYQCJ8G

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https://zoa.org/donate/philly/

Send checks payable to ZOA to: ZOA, PO Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

Thank you in advance!

 

Let’s Talk About Zionism, Israel and ZOA – From the Comfort of Your Home:

Your questions answered about advocacy, Middle East history, Zionism, the peace process, media bias and ZOA in a one-on-one conversation.

Call our office at 610-660-9466 to make an appointment for a virtual coffee via Zoom with Executive Director Steve Feldman.

Friends: If you can help Greater Philadelphia ZOA
by making phone calls (no soliciting!) and/or help
researching data on the Web from your home or office,
please call Executive Director Steve Feldman at 610-660-9466.

Thank you!

We are grateful once again to volunteer Sharon Frisch
for all of her help this week!

 

 

 

 

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

We hope that our newsletter finds you and your loved ones well.

You are most likely not yet thinking about Chanukah, which begins at sundown on December 10. But now is the time to think “Buy Israel” for the annual commemoration of a miraculous Jewish military and cultural victory. There are many opportunities to buy gifts from Israel such as hand-crafted jewelry or artwork, to Chanukiot, to chocolate gelt. Buying from Israel helps Israeli businesses that may be struggling with lack of tourism as a result of Corona virus restrictions and it helps counter the anti-Jewish BDS movement. When you search for products online, make sure that you are buying from Israeli businesses or products that are actually made in Israel. Some items can be purchased in local businesses including wines, or snacks including Bamba.

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On the topic of BDS, the combined tactics of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning the Jewish state are becoming more apparent to others as merely as a manifestation of Jew-hatred as more Arab states forge open relations with Israel. Israeli media are filled with reports that Sudan will announce plans to “normalize” relations with Israel as early as this weekend thanks to the diplomatic efforts of the Trump administration along with prevailing trends in the Middle East. Khartoum, Sudan was where the famous “Three Nos” were announced by the Arab League in September, 1967 in response to Israel’s generous offer to relinquish nearly all of the territories gained in her Six-Day War victory – in exchange for peace with Egypt and Syria. “No peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel” said the Arab League.

Today while the Arab nations themselves embrace Israel and ramp up commerce with Israel, student groups and students ramp up their BDS efforts on campuses throughout America. Advocates for Israel can use the developments with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and soon Sudan to expose the hate and cynicism at the root of BDS.

Congressional Candidates Questionnaire

Earlier this week we released the responses to our 2020 Congressional Candidates Questionnaire, an informational guide to the opinions and positions of those candidates who opted to participate. ZOA does not endorse candidates. In case you missed our email on the subject you can view the results at: https://philly.zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/10/candidates-questionnaire-2020-results-responses.pdf

Friends: If you can help Greater Philadelphia ZOA by making phone calls (no soliciting!) and/or help with a mailing from your home or office, please call Executive Director Steve Feldman at 610-660-9466.

Thank you!

 

Please Support Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s Vital Work!

https://zoa.org/donate/philly/

Send checks payable to ZOA to: ZOA, PO Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

Thank you in advance!

Let’s Talk About Zionism, Israel and ZOA – From the Comfort of Your Home:

Call our office at 610-660-9466 to make an appointment for a virtual conversation with Executive Director Steve Feldman.

 

 

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

Greater Philadelphia ZOA is once again calling on you to help us help Israel, the Jewish community and the relationship between the United States and the Jewish state.

• We need you to help amplify our work through your advocacy.
• We need you to volunteer your time and skills to help us reach more people.
• We need you to financially support our work.

ZOA staff and lay leaders are incessantly engaged in supporting and defending Israel, combatting Jew-hatred and strengthening the bonds between Israel and America in a number of arenas. Most of what we do occurs “behind-the-scenes” in the “trenches.” We do not issue news releases on everything that we accomplish and the media fails to report on most of what we do – but nevertheless we are doing. But we cannot do it alone. Please engage in the advocacy – whether it is directed at media, schools, politicians or even talking to family and friends. Help educate them; offer them facts; stimulate their intellect.

Greater Philadelphia ZOA needs to reach more people and be in touch more efficiently with our members and supporters, and to accomplish this we need volunteers. If you can spare some time and skills to make calls and do some internet research from your home, please call Executive Director Steve Feldman. There is no soliciting involved in this project!

Your contributions are the fuel that gives us the ability to continue our work at the high-level that you are accustomed to and that the causes we are engaged in require. If you have not made a donation to our chapter recently, please consider doing so now. If you have given us a donation earlier this year, please consider another donation now if you are able. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, many of our typical fundraising efforts have been hampered.

To learn about advocacy, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yg5nD7UHyE

And: https://philly.zoa.org/join-zoa-philly/advocacyactivism-how-to/

And: https://philly.zoa.org/pdf-resources/

To volunteer, please call Steve at 610-660-9466.

To donate: Send a check to P.O. Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 or click on https://zoa.org/donate/philly/

Thank you in advance!

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Now Available on YouTube:

Last night, Greater Philadelphia ZOA had the privilege of featuring two excellent scholars, Dr. Eunice G. Pollack and Dr. Charles Asher Small, to discuss the important topic “Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam: Jew-Hatred, Inc.” for a special virtual event. Due to human error, the first 10 minutes of this event was not recorded. We deeply apologize to our guests and sponsor. This event was sponsored by Betsy and David Rentz. We thank them for their support. See the video on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/ANOEelnwv7Y.

To support Greater Philadelphia ZOA and learn more about our work and advocacy, please go to www.philly.zoa.org

To sponsor an upcoming Greater Philadelphia ZOA virtual event, call Steve Feldman at 610-660-9466.

Friends: If you can help Greater Philadelphia ZOA by making phone calls (no soliciting!) and/or help with a mailing, please call Executive Director Steve Feldman at 610-660-9466.

Thank you!

Please Support Greater Philadelphia ZOA!

Now more than ever ZOA’s strong voice is needed locally and nationally, and your donations and participation give us that strength and the fuel we need. The level of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist rhetoric and activity in schools, on social media and traditional media and in the political arena is unprecedented in its brazenness. While much of the nation remains shutdown, the Jew-haters have not skipped a beat. Please help us expose them, refute their lies and distortions, and offer a remedy to those who they have “poisoned.”

Please make a donation now, while you are thinking about it, to help Greater Philadelphia ZOA.

Go to:

https://zoa.org/donate/philly/

Or you can send a check to:

ZOA

PO Box 56

Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

Questions, Concerns, Suggestions?

Want to have a better understand about Israel, or Zionism, or an aspect of the Middle East or the “peace process”?

Want to know more about ZOA or what we are doing, or want to become more involved in our organization?

Let’s “meet” via Zoom to discuss Israel, Zionism, the Jewish community and related matters, plus the Zionist Organization of America, what we do and how you can help us. All questions answered!

Email Steve at [email protected] to make an appointment or call 610-660-9466.

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