Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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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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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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