Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Former Top Spy David Cohen Warns Trump Not To ‘Politicize’ Iran Intelligence
WASHINGTON (JTA) — David Cohen, the former CIA deputy director, said President Trump’s tasking a team whose goal is to justify a pullout from the Iran deal posed a “grave danger” to the U.S. ability to face international threats. “The president’s reported demand for intelligence to support his policy preference to withdraw from the Iran…
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Fast Forward Senate Panel Approves Bill Penalizing Palestinian Authority For Terror Payments
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A key Senate panel has advanced a bill that would reduce U.S. payments to the Palestinians as long as the Palestinian Authority continues to pay subsidies to the families of Palestinians jailed for or killed in attacks on Israelis. The Taylor Force Act, named for an American who was stabbed to death…
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Fast Forward 6 Things About Jared Kushner’s Senate Appearance
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top aide, is appearing Monday in a closed meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee to describe meetings he had during his father’s campaign and the transition and their ties, if any, to a probe of Russian influence in the 2016 elections. Here are six things…
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Fast Forward 4 Times John McCain Went Maverick With His Jewish Friends
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — war hero, presidential candidate, force of nature — has brain cancer, his family said Wednesday night, and he is garnering well-wishes from across the spectrum. More than a few are from Jews: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called McCain “A hero. A fighter. A friend.” Godspeed, @SenJohnMcCain….
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Fast Forward Christian Zionists Still Uncertain About Trump — But They’re Glad He’s Not Obama
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Barack Obama is gone, and the relief among the Christian Zionists and their Jewish friends who peopled certain corners of Washington, D.C., this week was palpable. Gary Bauer, the veteran evangelical activist, laid it out at the opening session of Christians United for Israel’s annual conference on Monday. A year ago, “from…
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Fast Forward 5,000 Gather For Christian Pro-Israel Group Amid Pro-Trump Fever
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Christians United for Israel activists will lobby for a congressional bill that cuts nearly all U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it stops payments to the families of Palestinians jailed for or killed in attacks on Israelis. The pro-Israel group, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., for its 12th conference, on…
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Fast Forward Marc Kasowitz Sorry For Using ‘B-Word’ In Reply To Jewish Critic
(JTA) — Establishing a connection with a fellow Jew usually doesn’t demand an apology. But calling that fellow Jew a “bitch” and declaring threateningly and obscenely that “I know where you live” apparently does, especially if you are President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Marc Kasowitz said Thursday that he would apologize for a series of…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Is Starting Over In Israel — After 5 Years In Cuban Prison
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Gross contacted me a couple of months ago over Facebook Messenger. There was something he thought I should know. I was pleasantly surprised. I’d only exchanged pleasantries with Gross in the several times I’d seen him since his release from a Cuban prison in December 2014, ending five years of imprisonment…
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