Make a Name for Yourself!

July 25, 2017

Two ongoing Greater Philadelphia ZOA projects will soon come to a close and we invite you to participate in both while there is still time.

On August 3, we will begin putting together our Gala Tribute Book and Ad Journal. The Book/Journal is a once-a-year-opportunity to congratulate and thank some of our region’s most active pro-Israel advocates who we will be honoring at our Gala; it is a once-a-year opportunity for you to tell the world how much that you support Israel; a once-a-year-opportunity for businesses, service-providers and professionals to reach our members, supporters and friends to let them know about your business or service. The Book/Journal is an important keepsake. Hundreds who attend the Gala will receive a copy, plus it will be available on our Web site and we will email the link to the book throughout the year and also promote it on social media. Your ad or notice and your name will be seen!

Please note: Full-page ads includes tickets to our Gala, the pro-Israel event of the season. Save money by purchasing a notice or ad.

To place an ad or notice electronically, click on: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greater-philadelphia-zoa-gala-tickets-35826890193 for our Eventbrite site.

To place an ad or notice by check, please click on the link below, download the form and send in along with your payment.

http://philly.zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/06/gala-2017-ad-form-for-email.pdf

Our honorees this year are:

Allen L. Rothenberg, Jonathan S. Tobin, Rabbi Yaacov Orimland and Jim and Diane Showers.

If you have any questions, please call our Office at 610-660-9466.

Closing around Aug. 1 will be Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s “120 Club,” a special commemoration of our organization’s 120^th anniversary. We are having a distinct banner made to mark the occasion and for a small donation you can place your name or the name of a loved one on this banner, which will be displayed at all of our special events and meetings, as well as electronically on our Web site, our social media pages and in our emails. ZOA will only turn 120 once. Be a part of this historic anniversary. For each donation of $36, you can designate one name on the banner. The banner will be limited to the first 120 names.

See a mock-up of the banner below.

Send “120 Club” donations and a note with the name(s) to: ZOA, P.O. Box 56, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Please note “120 Club” on the memo line.

Thank you in advance for your support in these projects!

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Now taking ads and congratulatory notices for our Gala Ad Journal

July 14, 2017

Have a Business? Know Someone Who Does?

Why not promote your business or service – or theirs – in Greater Philadelphia ZOA’s 2017 Gala Ad Journal?

Everyone who attends our Gala will see the book, plus an electronic version will be emailed to our members, supporters and contacts; it will be on our social media sites; and on our Web page. Throughout the year, we remind people via email to check out the book online and patronize our advertisers.

Ads are a great way to reach potential new clients or customers. They also enable Greater Philadelphia ZOA to have programs and activities throughout the year to educate, advocate and reach out on behalf of a secure, strong and vibrant Jewish State of Israel; a strong mutually beneficial U.S.-Israel relationship; and a secure Jewish community.

Don’t have a business? Please consider placing a notice to congratulate our honorees and to thank them for what they do throughout the year for Israel; to state your support for Israel; or perhaps to salute ZOA during our 120^th anniversary year.

Please see the link immediately below for an electronic version of our ad-space reservation form. Below that is a link to our Eventbrite page, where you can purchase an ad or notice electronically. Some ads/notices include tickets to our Gala. If you have any questions, please call our Office at 610-660-9466.

Thank you in advance for your support!

http://philly.zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/06/gala-2017-ad-form-for-email.pdf

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greater-philadelphia-zoa-gala-tickets-35826890193

Wear your Zionism proudly!

June 29, 2017

ZOA Meeting on June 21 Focusing on Self-Defense

June 13, 2017

Please join us on Wednesday, June 21, for our next quarterly meeting featuring a great lineup of speakers.

The event will begin at 7:30 at the Kaiserman JCC, 45 Haverford Rd., Wynnewood.

Ira Gelman, a martial arts and self-defense expert, will present a seminar on protecting yourself, your family and your institution. Also, Mireia Pons, PR and fundraising director for Yatar Israel, an elite volunteer security unit, will make a presentation about her group. Finally, in honor of the 50^th anniversary of the Six-Day Way, reunification of Jerusalem and liberation of Judea and Samaria, we will hear from Six-Day War veteran Itzhak Nissim. All of this and more at the next ZOA event.

Free and open to the public – please help others benefit from these important presentations by letting your friends, neighbors, social-media contacts and others know about this meeting. Forward this email including the flyer below.

Volunteers needed to help pre- and post-event.

To volunteer or for more information, please call us at 610-660-9466.

Please click on the flyer below to enlarge.

Help Us Lobby Congress for Pro-Israel Legislation

June 08, 2017

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

As many of you know, Tuesday, June 6, was our Washington Advocacy Mission. We lobbied for four bills in the Senate, and six resolutions in the House. Nearly 70 people from our region participated in the Mission and they were among 200 participants from 19 states who convened in Washington for a day of hands-on pro-Israel advocacy in the halls of Congress.

Before we lobbied, we attended a festive, three-hour luncheon that featured talks by Dr. Sebastian Gorka from the Trump Administration; Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Tom Cotton and Sen. Sherrod Brown; a number of House members including Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Mark Meadows, and Rep. Louie Gohmert; Christian Zionist leader Gary Bauer; national security expert Frank Gaffney; journalist Molly Hemingway; and others.

For those of you who were not able to participate in the ZOA Washington Advocacy Mission this year, you can still play an important role in helping these important legislative items become laws by lobbying for them with your phone, fax machine or email.

Please contact your lawmakers (both senators and your House member) and ask that Senator _____________ and Representative _________________ co-sponsor the appropriate legislation. Also, please contact everyone you know throughout the nation and ask them to do likewise.

Below are the bill/resolution numbers, the names of the legislation, links to the text of each piece of legislation and for local lawmakers a scorecard of who is already a co-sponsor. There are also links to the Senate and House directories so that you can get the contact information for each lawmaker.

Each of these legislative items with strengthen and benefit both America and Israel. They were selected as priority items by ZOA National President Mort Klein.

Yesterday was quite an amazing day for everyone who participated in the Mission. Following briefings from our two lobbyists and a welcome from Mort Klein, we heard talks from Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant national security advisor to President Trump; a number of senators including Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Sherrod Brown; quite a few House members including Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows; leading Christian Zionist Gary Bauer, national security expert Frank Gaffney; and journalist Molly Hemingway.

After this festive luncheon, we fanned out across both the Senate and House office buildings to lobby members of both bodies in their offices. It was an upbeat, positive and productive day.

You can help get our legislative priorities “across the finish line” by contacting your lawmakers and asking others to do likewise. Thank you in advance for your help!

Congress contact information:

www.senate.gov

www.house.gov