Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward U.S. Authorities Attempt To Deport French Holocaust Scholar On Way To Conference
WASHINGTON (JTA) – U.S. authorities came close to deporting an Egyptian-born French Jewish Holocaust-era scholar on his way to speak at a symposium at Texas A&M. Henry Rousso was detained in Houston when the university enlisted one of its law professors who specializes in immigrant rights to intervene, The Eagle, a news site covering the…
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Fast Forward Pence Pledges Trump Will Keep Iran From Going Nuclear, Walks Back Jerusalem Promise
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence pledged to Jewish Republicans that the Trump administration would “never allow” Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but walked back President Donald Trump’s promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. “We told the ayatollahs of Iran they should check the calendar, there’s a new president in…
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Fast Forward Israel Backtracks On Barring Human Rights Watch Staffer
(JTA) — Israel said an American employee of Human Rights Watch may enter the country on a tourist visa and should reapply for a work visa, days after barring his entry for alleged anti-Israel bias. “This is to clarify that the HRW representative may enter Israel with a tourist visa,” Itai Bar-Dov, the spokesman for…
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Fast Forward RJC Names Former Senator, Norm Coleman, As Chairman
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition replaced its longtime chairman, David Flaum, with Norm Coleman, the former U.S. senator for Minnesota. The RJC board voted Coleman in on Friday during its annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas. Statements by both men in the RJC release noted Republican successes during the ten years Flaum,…
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Fast Forward ‘Rebuilding’ Efforts Overshadow Jewish Issues In DNC Election
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The race to lead the Democratic National Committee is nothing if not granular. Among the leading candidates Tom Perez, the former labor secretary, says “every ZIP code counts.” Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, touts his “50 plus” states strategy. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., talks about a “3,143 county strategy.”…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Demand Action From Trump To Match Words On Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) – He hates it, he really hates it. Now what’s he going to do about it? President Donald Trump on Tuesday culminated three weeks of missed opportunities to condemn anti-Semitism and doubling down on missed opportunities to condemn anti-Semitism with a statement unequivocally condemning anti-Semitism. “The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups And Lawmakers Berate Trump For Blasting Ultra-Orthodox Reporter
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League decried President Donald Trump’s brusque treatment of a reporter who asked about a spike in anti-Semitic incidents and challenged him to offer an explicit condemnation of anti-Semitism. “It is honestly mind-boggling why President Trump prefers to shout down a reporter or brush this off…
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Fast Forward Trump & Netanyahu: ‘No Daylight’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there would be “no daylight” between the United States and Israel and planned to set up a number of working groups in areas of bilateral security and economic interests. Like their joint news conference prior to the leaders meeting on Wednesday, the joint…
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