
Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
(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…
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…
(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…
(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….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than three-quarters of House members oppose placing any conditions on aid to Israel, including some progressives from the Democratic Party’s left wing. They made the point clear in a letter sent Thursday to the body’s chief appropriators. The letter to Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, and…
(JTA) — The Virginia Republican Party, already under fire for a process for picking a gubernatorial candidate that critics say excludes some voters, just disenfranchised another constituency: Shabbat-observant Jews. A majority of the State Central Committee voted Thursday for a religious exemption to voting at the convention taking place on May 8, a Saturday, but…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top Democratic and Republican lawmakers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee have joined a bill that supports the expansion of normalization agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It’s a sign of increasing bipartisan support for the initiative launched by former President Donald Trump. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the New York Democrat…
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was ready to “remove obstacles” to renewing U.S.-Israel ties, apparently signaling a willingness to stop the payments to the families of Palestinians who have killed Israelis that have proven to be a stumbling block. Speaking Sunday to J Street’s annual conference, Abbas also urged the participants…
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