Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Conspiracy Theorist Who Tied Nazi Gun Control To Holocaust Will Speak To Congress
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern that a witness at a congressional hearing on a controversial gun bill wrote a book arguing that gun control rendered Jews defenseless during the Holocaust. Stephen Halbrook, who wrote “Gun Control in the Third Reich” in 2015, is set to appear Tuesday at a meeting of the U.S. House of…
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Fast Forward UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Lays Out Case For Leaving Iran Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in a comprehensive speech laid out a possible case for the United States to leave the Iran deal, although she said no decision had been made. Haley’s argument, made Monday in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Slam Trump For ‘Immoral’ DACA Decision
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked as immoral President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. The Trump administration on Monday said it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched by President Barack…
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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Rejects Rabbi’s Plea To Censure Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, dismissed a bid by Democrats to censure President Donald Trump as a “partisan hack-fest” after a rabbi in his Wisconsin district asked him to join because of what she said was Trump’s condoning of racism. Rabbi Dena Feingold, who leads Beth…
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Fast Forward What Steve Bannon’s Strange Journey In Trump-Land Meant To The Jews
(JTA) — Stephen Bannon, whose advice to President Donald Trump was that “darkness is good,” was thrust out into the light of the sunshiny day enveloping Washington, D.C., on Friday: He is no longer Trump’s strategic adviser. It’s not clear yet what led to Bannon’s departure: He alone among Trump’s senior advisers favored the president’s…
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Fast Forward Inside The Charlottesville Rally, Jews Targeted For Special Abuse
(JTA) — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) — The white supremacists, for all their vaunted purpose, appeared to be disoriented. The city of Charlottesville, thanks to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, had allowed them — 500 or so — their rally in Emancipation Park, or as they prefer to call it, Lee Park, to protest…
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Fast Forward One Dead As Car Plows Into Anti-Racist Counter-Protesters In Charlottesville
(JTA) — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) — A car traveling at a high speed plowed through a crowd during protests against a white supremacist gathering, killing one person and injuring at least five. At least one of the injured was in critical condition, sources close to law enforcement told JTA on Saturday. A JTA reporter counted…
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Fast Forward These Jewish Women Are Running For Office Because Of Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Emily’s List, the organization that encourages women to run for office, reported in April that inquiries from women about running for office on the local, state and national level have skyrocketed — from 900 during the 2016 election cycle to 11,000 since Donald Trump’s election as president. How many of these would-be lawmakers…
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