“It was a vivid reminder to all that defending Israel and
those who support her is an ongoing battle – a battle the
ZOA is committed to fighting.”
college campuses and reinforce a real love for
Israel. Thank you, ZOA, for all that you do!”
Dr. Mordechai Kedar Speaks
to ZOA Supporters
In May 2019, over 100 people attended a
ZOA talk about the Middle East and Israel
with Dr. Mordechai Kedar, director of the
Center for the Study of the Middle East and
lecturer in the Department of Arabic Studies
at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Dr. Kedar is
one of Israel’s leading figures in understanding
the Arab world and a frequent guest in the
Israeli, Arab and international media.
Media Relations
ZOA Michigan’s op-eds – on topics such as
Iran, the Arab war against Israel, the future of
American Jewry, anti-Semitism at universities,
and BDS – have been published in local and
national media, including the Detroit Jewish
News, Times of Israel, and the Jerusalem Post,
reaching thousands of people and educating
them on current events.
ZOA Michigan’s Annual
Dinner with ZOA National
President Morton Klein and
Dennis Prager
In November 2019,
ZOA Michigan held
its 84th annual dinner.
Our speakers this year
included ZOA National
President Morton Klein
and radio talk show
host and writer Dennis
Prager.
NEW ENGLAND
Defending the Truth
ZOA New England Speaks
the Truth at Local Parlor
meetings
Every conversation is an opportunity to
educate or miseducate. At every gathering of
ZOA New England, we bolster and reinforce
our ability to speak up and tell the truth
about Israel.
ZOA New England had two parlor meetings
this past spring, hosted respectively by Dr.
David and Laura Eisenberg and Susan and
Allen Friedman. We heard from the Director
of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice
Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. about her groundbreaking
work on behalf of Jewish and pro-
Israel students on college campuses, which
has been an inspiration to every group which
has heard her speak. In fact, so moved by the
courageous ZOA battle led by Susan to get
the U.S. Department of Education’s Office
for Civil Rights to reinterpret Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students, a
writer for the local Boston Jewish newspaper
asked that the account of the legal campaign
be written in an article for inclusion in the
newspaper.
The second parlor meeting attracted a
diverse crowd, drawing from many towns in
the greater Boston area, including Holliston,
Ashland, and Wayland. In that meeting,
it was a surprise to many to hear from the
featured speaker that the legal strides that
ZOA was able to make in defense of Jewish
college students were not always honored.
Ms. Tuchman emphasized that it is an
ongoing battle to have these laws upheld
so that they actually do the job they were
intended to do: to protect students, specifically
Jewish and pro-Israel students who are
“ZOA is
one of the
few Jewish
organizations
that is
completely
principled in
its approach
and will not
back down.”
78 Around the Country: New England