Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Biden speaks with Netanyahu and Rivlin, assures Israeli leaders ties will remain ‘close’
(JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call Tuesday that the ties between their countries would remain strong. “The president-elect noted that he expects to work closely with the prime minister to address the many challenges confronting our countries,” Biden’s transition team said in a statement following the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s US ambassador says it would be a ‘mistake’ for Biden administration to rejoin Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s U.S. ambassador said President-elect Joe Biden should not have the U.S. reenter the Iran nuclear deal. At least the one that was signed in 2015, when Biden was vice president. “I think it would be a mistake,” Ron Dermer said Monday at a forum Monday when asked if the U.S. should…
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Fast Forward Elissa Slotkin: Internecine warfare among Democrats would be a ‘shanda’
(JTA) — Elissa Slotkin, the rare Democrat who won reelection in a district where Donald Trump got a majority, is urging her fellow Democrats: don’t make a shanda before the GOP. “There are people both inside and outside the party who are looking to split it apart,” Slotkin told Politico in a story posted Friday,…
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Fast Forward Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House. The couple’s children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital…
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Fast Forward Saeb Erekat, longtime Palestinian peace negotiator, dies of the coronavirus
(JTA) — Saeb Erekat, the perpetually optimistic Palestinian peace negotiator who forged close relationships with his Israeli counterparts and pressed until his final days for a two-state outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has died. Erekat, 65, died Tuesday at Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem, a suburb of Jerusalem, where he was in the care of…
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Fast Forward RJC and ZOA, two right-wing Jewish groups, won’t say ‘president-elect’ Biden for now
(JTA) — Two conservative Jewish organizations known for their support of President Donald Trump’s Israel policies will not call Joe Biden “president-elect” until legal challenges are settled, reflecting a consolidation of right-wing backing for Trump’s refusal to concede. “We will be referring to ‘President-elect’ Biden when the states certify the election and the courts have…
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Fast Forward Poll: Jewish voters favored Biden 77-21
(JTA) — Jewish voters favored Joe Biden over Preident Donald Trump 77%-21% in an exit poll. The numbers, in a poll by GBAO Strategies for J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group which endorsed Biden, was of 800 voters who voted early or who answered questions on election night. The poll released in…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump makes another pilgrimage to Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave, praying for a repeat of 2016
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as an election approaches that could oust her father from the presidency or give him another four years. Smartphone video posted on social media captured President Donald Trump’s daughter emerging, masked, on Thursday night from the “ohel,” a modest structure…
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