
Ron Kampeas

By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Sudan will normalize ties with Israel, Trump announces
Sudan will become the third Arab country in the past two months to normalize ties with Israel, continuing the trend of Arab states’ willingness to advance ties with the Jewish state even without a peace agreement with the Palestinians. President Donald Trump announced the agreement on Friday. According to a joint statement released by Israel,…
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Fast Forward Poll finds American Jews set to vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden
(JTA) — Jewish voters are set to vote 75% to 22% for Joe Biden, according to a poll by the American Jewish Committee. The poll released Monday shows the Democratic nominee expanding his support among Jewish voters from a 67-30 split in a poll last month and it includes other signs that President Donald Trump…
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Fast Forward Trump White House brokers the (etrog) deal of the century
WASHINGTON (JTA) — There was a hard deadline to meet and the job involved delicate international negotiations, but the Trump administration’s top Middle East envoy got on the job. Thanks to Avi Berkowitz, Sukkot was was saved for tens of thousands of New York area Jews. Fox News reported Wednesday that Berkowitz led a successful…
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Fast Forward Trump quoted as saying Jews are ‘only in it for themselves’
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Jews “stick together” and are “only in it for themselves” following conversations with Jewish lawmakers, The Washington Post quoted senior White House officials as saying. The quotes are in a lengthy article quoting anonymous current and former officials describing how Trump treated race in private conversations. The Post did…
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Fast Forward RBG: First Jew, first woman to lie in state at Capitol
As she made history during her illustrious life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do so upon her passing: She will become the first Jew to lie in state at the Capitol building, and the first woman, Jewish or non. The former Supreme Court justice who died Friday aged 87 will first lie in repose at the…
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Fast Forward The Bidens tell Jewish supporters the new year will be happier with Trump out
(JTA) — Jill and Joe Biden greeted Jewish supporters for the Jewish New Year and cast the holy day’s message as an imperative to drive President Donald Trump from office. It was the second New Year’s greetings-turned-pitch for votes of the season. Trump made his own appeal Wednesday during a White House call to Jewish…
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Fast Forward Looking back at a crazy Jewish year of politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — To prepare for Rosh Hashanah, take a break, my editor said. Let’s take this moment to look back at the crazy year in politics, he said. So I did — but it wasn’t a restorative break. In 5780, the news didn’t stop. Shana tova to my readers, and here’s hoping we’ll get…
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Fast Forward On Rosh Hashanah call, Trump tells Jews ‘we love your country’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump spent much of his 20-minute call with American Jewish leaders making the case for more American Jews to vote for him. He closed by repeating a line that has raised their eyebrows before. “We really appreciate you,” Trump said as he signed off the call, an annual pre-Rosh Hashanah…
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