Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Two-State Solution Still Alive and Kicking — in Congress at Least
There’s a striking difference between competing bids in Congress addressing last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. It’s not that they differ on the United Nations – the two nonbinding congressional resolutions under consideration condemn the Security Council, as well as the outgoing Obama administration for abstaining and not exercising the U.S. veto….
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Fast Forward Keith Ellison Tells Rabbis He ‘Regrets’ Past Ties With Farrakhan
(JTA) — In a lengthy letter to the Conservative movement’s rabbinical arm, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said he regretted past positions that have unsettled Jews as he seeks the chairmanship of the Democratic Party. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, meanwhile, spoke Wednesday with about 50 Jewish Democrats about his own bid to head the Democratic…
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Fast Forward Ron Dermer Calls for U.S. To Move Embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON — In remarks dovetailing with policies embraced by president-elect Donald Trump, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer delivered a forceful plea for the United States to move the embassy to Jerusalem. “Israel hopes that next year when the new American ambassador to Israel lights the menorah in his embassy he will light it in the same…
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Fast Forward Abe Foxman Blasts David Friedman for ‘Ugly’ Attack on Anti-Defamation League
WASHINGTON – Abraham Foxman, the retired Anti-Defamation League director, said language that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel directed at the group is “unacceptable” and “ugly.” “Ambassador-designate Friedman’s ugly language in describing ADL, its current CEO, and J Street is unacceptable and it undermines the need for unity in our community to face…
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News 5 Times Beltway Politics Sparked Nastiness at Synagogue
(JTA) — With Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner looking for a spiritual home in Washington D.C., Jews of all political stripes would like to think they could find a nice place to pray. But it doesn’t always work out like that. Here are six occasions where politics on Washington’s mean streets seeped into shuls and…
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News What Could Go Wrong as Ivanka and Jared Go Shul Shopping? Try Everything.
President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, are synagogue shopping in D.C. — and it’s making headlines in the Jewish world and out. Reporting this in the mainstream media requires some explanation — an MSNBC anchor apparently believed the story was about Trump shoe shopping — but generally the narrative touches…
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Fast Forward Trump Nominates David Friedman as Israel Ambassador, Evokes Jerusalem Embassy
President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a top Jewish surrogate, David Friedman, to be ambassador to Israel, with a statement saying Friedman will serve from Jerusalem and describing the city as “Israel’s eternal capital.” Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer who has for years worked for Trump and his real estate development business, was with Jason Greenblatt, another…
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Fast Forward Obama Pleads With Jews to ‘Have Faith’ in Future at Hanukkah Parties
WASHINGTON — Pleading with American Jews to “have faith that brighter days are ahead,” President Barack Obama bid emotional farewells to the Jewish community at his final Hanukkah parties as president. Jewish community leaders, lawmakers, top Jewish Democrats and major backers of Obama’s campaigns attended two separate parties on Wednesday at the White House. The…
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