Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Opening inquiry into Meron catastrophe, Israeli state comptroller cites earlier warnings about site’s safety
(JTA) — Israel’s state comptroller has launched an inquiry into the stampede at Mount Meron on Lag b’Omer that killed 45 celebrants, citing prior warnings from his office that the site was unsafe for mass use. “We must now examine and see how this incident should have been prevented,” Haaretz quoted Matanyahu Englman as saying…
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Fast Forward Biden in Jewish heritage month message nods to Chuck Schumer and Doug Emhoff for setting precedents
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden cited the precedent his vice president’s husband set as a high and the spike in antisemitism as a low in his proclamation marking Jewish American Heritage Month. Biden said this year Americans “recognize two historic firsts, as America saw the Vice President take the oath of office alongside her…
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Fast Forward Sean Hannity demands apology for Jerusalem Post article noting accusations of antisemitism
(JTA) — Fox News personality Sean Hannity demanded an apology and a retraction from the Jerusalem Post for reporting on accusations that his use of the word “Bolshevik” to describe Bernie Sanders had antisemitic connotations. “I demand an immediate retraction & apology from the @Jerusalem_Post,” Hannity tweeted Friday evening. “Israel has no greater friend, ally…
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Fast Forward Biden offers assistance to Israel in aftermath of Lag B’Omer tragedy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden offered assistance to Israel in the wake of a deadly stampede on Lag b’Omer in Israel’s North. Biden said in a statement released Friday by the White House that he had called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The loss of life among worshipers practicing their faith is heartbreaking,” Biden said….
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Fast Forward Jewish policy umbrella calls China’s treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority ‘genocide’
(JTA) — The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the main policy umbrella for U.S. Jewish groups, resolved to protest what it called China’s “genocide” of its Muslim Uyghur minority. “The Jewish community should call upon the CCP to end the genocide and exploitation of the Uyghurs, as well as halt the oppression of other ethnic…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s bust will be featured in the National Cathedral. He may (or may not) be the first Jew to get the honor.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Washington’s National Cathedral is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist, with a bust, the first Jew to be so honored. Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit. “I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person,” the cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said after…
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Fast Forward Israel orders the deportation of dozens of African Hebrew Israelites
(JTA) — Israel has ordered the departure of 46 families belonging to the community of African Hebrew Israelites within 60 days. Prince Immanuel Ben-Yehuda, a spokesman for the community, told The Associated Press on Monday that the Interior Ministry’s order was a “shock to the system.” The ministry said the deportations could be appealed. The…
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Fast Forward Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City
(JTA) — Aviva Okeson-Haberman had come home after apartment hunting in Lawrence, Kansas, where the reporter for the Kansas City NPR affiliate was about to start a new job covering social services and criminal justice. On Friday, Okeson-Haberman was hit by a stray bullet that entered her first-floor apartment in Kansas City’s Santa Fe neighborhood….
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