Jewish New Yorkers are divided following Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s win. Some feel uneasy about his views on Israel, while others are optimistic about his progressive platform. In Spectrum News NY1’s coverage, Amanda Berman, Founder and CEO of Zioness, spoke about the concerns many in the Jewish community share: “There’s a gaslighting feeling,” Berman said. “There’s …
In a recent Jewish Insider feature, Zioness Founder and CEO Amanda Berman offers critical insight into how discourse around Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish community has evolved on the American left and why that matters now more than ever. “It seems indisputable that the Overton window has shifted dramatically over the last two years in …
In a NY Daily News op-ed, Zioness Founder and CEO Amanda Berman urges New York City’s mayoral candidates to move beyond empty rhetoric and address the urgent rise in antisemitism with concrete policy solutions. Amanda elucidates on the Jewish community’s growing vulnerability and challenges leaders to ensure safety, inclusion, and representation for all.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an order concerning ongoing litigation about our ownership of the Zioness trademark. While we have avoided the court of public opinion on this matter––preferring to focus our energy on the passionately Zionist social justice organizing that our community so deeply needs––we are aware that our opponents in …
On July 19, members of the Black and Jewish communities came together to help paint a Compton high school as part of a day of service dubbed “Shared Hoped Tour.” Throughout the day, volunteers helped paint, clean and plant trees at Compton Academy of Technology and Innovation, a new high school overseen by Compton Unified …
