Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward FBI charges suspect in Austin synagogue arson
(JTA) — The FBI has charged a suspect already arrested on local charges relating to a fire set at a synagogue in Austin, Texas. Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, was transferred to federal custody on Monday, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Investigators with the Austin fire department arrested him last week on an arson charge related to…
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Fast Forward Josh Mandel is running for a Senate seat again — this time as a far-right leader who promotes ‘Judeo-Christian’ values
(JTA) — In 2012, Josh Mandel’s political future was glowing. As Ohio’s state treasurer, he ran for a U.S. Senate seat as a young conservative Marine vet with deep ties to local and national Jewish communities. Despite the fact that he lost the election to the incumbent, Democrat Sherrod Brown, Mandel stayed on the rise,…
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Fast Forward Mike Pompeo’s campaigning for Trump from Jerusalem was illegal, investigation finds
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A federal investigation said that Mike Pompeo violated the Hatch Act when, as Secretary of State, he addressed the Republican National Convention in 2020 from Jerusalem. In its lengthy report issued Tuesday, the Office of Special Counsel also faulted several of former President Trump’s top Jewish officials for violations of the Hatch…
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Fast Forward Report from Las Vegas: Some Jewish Republicans have Trump fatigue, but they just can’t quit him
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition conference was about 2022, and also 2024. It was about how a near Republican sweep in state and local races last week revealed a way back to GOP control of the federal government. It was about moving more Jews from D to R. What the conference this…
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Fast Forward Nikki Haley to Republican Jews: AIPAC takes bipartisanship and Democratic outreach too far
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — Nikki Haley, among the most popular likely 2024 presidential contenders in the pro-Israel community, sharply criticized AIPAC for what she said was its overemphasis on bipartisanship in its outreach to Democrats. Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump, told a Republican Jewish Coalition conference here that…
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Fast Forward A host of 2024 hopefuls — including Donald Trump — will feature at Republican Jewish Coalition conference
(JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2020 conference was one of the last Jewish conferences to be canceled as the pandemic set in: The group had gone so far as to order branded hand sanitizer. Now, it’s one of the first to resume, and it’s doing so amid a great deal of change relevant to…
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Fast Forward Senate confirms Tom Nides to be ambassador to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After Sen. Josh Hawley briefly held up the appointment, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tom Nides, a businessman and a former deputy secretary of state, to be U.S. ambassador to Israel on Wednesday night. Jewish Insider reported the confirmation. It was never clear what objection Hawley, a Republican of Missouri, had to Nides,…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump: ‘I could run for prime minister of Israel’
(JTA) — Former President Donald Trump told a conservative Jewish radio host that Israel until recently “literally owned Congress,” a claim similar to those that have triggered accusations of antisemitism against other politicians. The comments came during Trump’s Oct. 29 interview with Seattle-based talk show host Ari Hoffman as Trump was reviewing his Middle East…
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