Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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News The Jewish Gossip Kings Who Dish Dirt — On Everyone Except Donald Trump
(JTA) — Harvey Levin runs the gossip industry giant TMZ. The Daily Beast reported this week that in 2016, just prior to the election, Levin did something unusual: Hearing that there was an incriminating video of Republican nominee Donald Trump in an elevator, he alerted Trump instead of his readers. David Pecker, the National Enquirer…
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Fast Forward Why Do Racists Keep Popping Up In Republican Primaries?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Republicans seek alternative to ‘Nazi’ candidate after he secures nomination,” one headline reads. “GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati,” another says. Both headlines would be alarming enough if they weren’t about two separate congressional races. The emergence of fringe candidates as the…
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Fast Forward Congress Wants To Define Anti-Semitism. That Could Get Messy.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind a bill that would define anti-Semitism. The measure introduced Thursday by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is Jewish, and Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a leader on pro-Israel issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, at first looks like a bipartisan slam dunk. The principal target…
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Fast Forward Democratic Nominee For Georgia Governor Opposes Anti-BDS Bills
(JTA) — In Georgia’s battle of the Staceys, Stacey Abrams, the state’s onetime House minority leader, defeated former State Rep. Stacey Evans in the Democratic primary for governor. Nationwide, the win is seen as a bellwether in the battle for the Democratic soul between progressives and moderates. Abrams is a progressive. The Israel wrinkle in…
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Fast Forward CNN Panel Erupts Over Ivanka Meeting With Rabbi Who Compared Blacks To Monkeys
(JTA) — On CNN on Tuesday, Don Lemon asked an all-black panel to comment on how they felt about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner receiving a blessing from Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during their visit to Israel to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Yosef is under criminal investigation for making a bizarre…
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Fast Forward These Jewish Groups Are Fighting Behind The Scenes — And Maybe Even Physically
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations updated its secret rules to ban “insults, ad hominem attacks, and name-calling” among member organizations and instituted a special committee to consider complaints in strictest confidence. On May 2, the committee met, in strictest confidence, to hear three complaints. The session,…
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Fast Forward Israeli ‘Terror’ Group Funded By David Friedman Blames Listing On ‘Ignorance’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The leader of Qomemiyut, a group that received funds from a charity headed by David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said his group is not the same as a group with an identical name on the U.S. State Department list of designated terrorist groups. Mussa Cohen had told JTA on Friday,…
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Fast Forward Charity Headed By U.S. Ambassador To Israel Gave Money To Extremist Group
JTA EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story said that Qomemiyut is on the U.S. State Department designated terrorist list. The State Department list includes a group by that name, but the group that received the donation says it is not the same group, noting that the current iteration was established in 2006, seven…
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