Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
-
Fast Forward Is Jared Kushner In Deeper Trouble After Robert Mueller’s Bombshell Legal Push?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had ties with Russia, issued two indictments this week and unsealed a guilty plea. Paul Manafort, who for several months last year helmed the Trump campaign, and an associate, Rick Gates, who remained with the campaign after Manafort left and worked…
-
Fast Forward Israeli Terror Victims’ Supreme Court Argument Hinges On 1784 Fistfight
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The case of Joseph Jesner v. Arab Bank is a bid by about 6,000 Israelis who have been harmed by Palestinian terrorism to get redress from Jordan’s Arab Bank, which delivered money to the groups carrying out the acts. Yet when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case on Oct….
-
News Anti-BDS Laws Hit Unintended Targets — Sparking Free Speech Debate
On May 2, Israel’s Independence Day, Texas state Rep. Phil King stood smiling as Gov. Greg Abbott signed King’s bill banning the state from doing business with boycotters of Israel. “Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an important ally,” Abbott said of the bill that overwhelmingly passed the…
-
Fast Forward Rabbi Apologizes For Sermon Claiming ‘Alt-Left’ Are Jews’ Greatest Enemies
(JTA) — A rabbi at a suburban Atlanta synagogue apologized for a Rosh Hashanah sermon after congregants complained that he appeared to cast the American left as inimical to the Jews. “The great threat that we face as Americans and as Jews comes not from the ‘alt-right’ but from the alt-left,” Rabbi Shalom Lewis said…
-
Fast Forward Trump Vows To Kill Iran Deal If Congress Doesn’t Make Changes
(JTA) — President Donald Trump asked Congress to effectively amend the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and said he would outright pull the United States out of the deal if he was not happy with the result. “Key House and Senate leaders are drafting legislation that would amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act to strengthen…
-
Fast Forward Top Iran Skeptic Urges Trump To Stick With Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., a senior House Democrat who opposed the Iran nuclear deal, is leading an effort to persuade President Donald Trump to abide by the agreement. “Some of us voted for, and some against the Iran nuclear agreement,” said the letter due to be sent Wednesday to Trump with signatures…
-
Fast Forward Can Sheldon Pivot? Adelson Campus Group Shifts Away From Hard Sell On Israel.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group of student leaders from a major American university meets in eastern Jerusalem with Palestinian students on the campus of Al-Quds University, named for Jerusalem, the city Palestinians hope will one day be their capital. It’s the kind of encounter that once might have sent Sheldon Adelson and other right-wing pro-Israel…
-
Fast Forward U.S. And Israel Split Over Palestinian Unity Push
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration is encouraging the Palestinian Authority to assume control of the Gaza Strip and leaving the door open for a role by Hamas in the subsequent Palestinian government. Palestinian Authority government officials returned this week to the Gaza Strip, the first en masse visit — by Cabinet and security officials…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 2
Culture A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
- 3
News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
- 4
Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Jewish moderate Julie Menin claims victory as next City Council speaker
-
Letters Jewish leaders must work with educators to battle antisemitism — not demonize us
-
Opinion More than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. How did we get here?
-
Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: די ערשטע פֿרומע ייִדישע בירגער־מײַסטערין אין אַמעריקעTidbits: The first female Orthodox Jewish mayor in the U.S
מישעל ווײַס, אַ רעפּובליקאַנערין, האָט געוווּנען די וואַלן אין יוניווערסיטי הײַטס — אַ טיף דעמאָקראַטישער פֿאָרשטאָט פֿון קליוולאַנד, אָהײַאָ
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
