Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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News The fighting in Gaza, Jerusalem and across Israel, explained
(JTA) — Rocket attacks in Israel. Airstrikes in Gaza. Violence in Jerusalem’s holiest sites. Protests across the city. It feels like Israel is in chaos. What is going on? And why is it happening now? Here’s what you need to know. What is happening in Israel right now? Is this another war? Not yet —…
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News Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s Democratic ‘master of disaster,’ has stepped down. But he may not be gone for long.
(JTA) — The tweet pinned to the top of Jared Moskowitz’s feed is a 46-word rebuke. All 46 words are “MASKS,” and Moskowitz, Florida’s youthful director of emergency management until last Friday, acknowledged that a prime target of the tweet was his boss, Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The governor and I, you know, disagree on masks,”…
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Fast Forward A Democratic pro-Israel group calls a longtime Jewish leader an enabler of antisemitism, exposing a fault line in the party
(JTA) — Tensions among Jewish groups allied with the Biden administration blew into the open this week when a Democratic pro-Israel group briefly called a longtime Jewish leader an enabler of antisemitism — a sign of how potent a debate over a definition of antisemitism has become. Nancy Kaufman led Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council…
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Fast Forward Leading Jewish Republicans differ sharply over a Biden human rights nominee
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sarah Margon, up for a top human rights role at the State Department, is the latest Biden nominee to face fierce pushback from conservatives, among them the Republican Jewish Coalition. But at least one prominent Jewish Republican is backing Margon’s nomination. Elliott Abrams, a longtime foreign policy maven with experience in a…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner launches peace institute to advance Abraham Accords
(JTA) — Jared Kushner has launched an institute to promote his major accomplishment when he advised his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump: the normalization agreements between Israel and a number of Sunni Arab countries. Kushner founded the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace with Avi Berkowitz, a friend who Kushner brought in to be the chief…
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Fast Forward Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91
(JTA) — Yosef Kleinman, the youngest Holocaust survivor to testify at the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, has died at 91. Kleinman, who lived in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, according to Akiva Weisz, a reporter for Israel’s Kan public broadcaster. Weisz posted the notice on Twitter. Kleinman was one of 110 witnesses at the 1961…
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Fast Forward Israeli man visiting Baltimore for a wedding is shot dead in apparent robbery
(JTA) — An Israeli man visiting Baltimore to attend a wedding was shot dead in a robbery outside the house he was staying. Video surveillance from homes in the heavily Jewish area on Fords Lane in the northwest part of the city shows three youths approaching Efraim Gordon as he leaves a car and enters…
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Fast Forward Oregon Holocaust memorial defaced with swastikas and antisemitic slurs
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial in Portland, Oregon, was defaced with swastikas and antisemitic slurs. Police discovered the vandalism over the weekend covering a wall of the memorial in the Washington Park neighborhood and appearing elsewhere near the memorial, the local NBC affiliate KGW reported. There are no suspects. The memorial was created by Holocaust…
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