Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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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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Fast Forward Stephen Miller, Trump Campaign Aide, Named to White House Policy Post
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump named as a top policy adviser Stephen Miller, a Jewish campaigner for the Republican known for his fiery speeches. “As national policy director, he oversaw the entire policy operation, led the policy development and formulation efforts, and directed strategic policy decisions on a day-to-day basis,” according to the Trump transition…
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Fast Forward What Will Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State Mean for Jewish Agenda?
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, an energy company large enough to have its own foreign policy. It is a policy, however, that doesn’t always align with the priorities of Jewish and pro-Israel groups. Oil companies have clashed in the past with the…
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Fast Forward Rabbis and Imams Search for Common Ground as Donald Trump Looms Large
(JTA) — A year ago, when several dozen Washington-area Jewish and Muslim religious and lay leaders jostled for spots in a group picture, the mood was convivial. The most novel item on the agenda for that November 2015 confab was bringing in non-Middle Eastern Muslims into the Jewish-Muslim dialogue. The meeting and the venue —…
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Fast Forward Trump Aide Calls Moving Embassy to Jerusalem ‘Priority’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is a major priority. “That is a very big priority for this president-elect, Donald Trump,” Kellyanne Conway told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt during his radio show Monday, according to Politico. “It is something that our friend in Israel,…
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