Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Maryland Lt. Gov.’s Response to Hate Crime Wave Upsets Some
WASHINGTON — Maryland’s lieutenant governor is raising hackles for saying he was glad haters are coming out into the open, referring to a question he fielded about a rise in anti-Jewish attacks. Boyd Rutherford, a Republican, speaking last week at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, had been asked by a local rabbi…
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Fast Forward 4 Jewish Groups Urge Donald Trump To Dump Michael Flynn as Security Pick
WASHINGTON — Four liberal Jewish groups have joined a drive calling on President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the choice of Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, citing the general’s hostility to Islam and his retweeting an anti-Semitic tweet. “He has written that ‘fear of Muslims is rational’ and said that ‘Islam is a political ideology’…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Lobby Donald Trump on ‘Bad’ Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he looked forward to speaking to Donald Trump about what to do about the “bad” Iran deal, once Trump is president. “As far as President-elect Trump, I look forward to speaking to him about what to do about this bad deal,” Netanyahu said Sunday, addressing the…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman Named To Head Trump Economic Advisory Team
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Schwarzman, a leading money manager and a contributor to Jewish and Catholic causes, as chairman of a group of leading businessmen who will advise him on economic policy. Schwarzman, a billionaire who founded the Blackstone Group, an equity management firm, will lead a 16-person “strategic and policy…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Condemns Bigotry ‘In All Its Forms’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump condemned bigotry while speaking at a victory rally. “We condemn bigotry and prejudice in all its forms,” Trump said Thursday in Cincinnati in a rare address since defeating Hillary Clinton several weeks ago. “We denounce all of the hatred and we forcefully reject the language of exclusion and separation….
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Fast Forward Trump Pentagon Pick Gen. James Mattis Accused Israel of Heading to ‘Apartheid’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate as defense secretary Gen. James Mattis, a pick that has already stirred controversy among right-wing pro-Israel groups, with some lamenting the choice and others praising it. “We are going to appoint ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis as our secretary of defense,” Trump said Thursday at his first…
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Fast Forward ADL Chief Pushes Back Against ‘Full-Scale Assault’ Over Criticism of Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urged the organization’s leading activists to counter what he said was an “organized, concerted effort” to delegitimize the group. The 900-word email sent Wednesday was a bid to counter what has been at times a fierce assault on the venerable civil rights group for its lead role…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Son Slams Donald Trump Rhetoric — Demands Reconciliation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elie Wiesel’s son excoriated the rhetoric and policies associated with President-elect Donald Trump, but also cautioned Americans to respect each other however deep the political divide. “He believed strongly in the role of this museum and broadcasting the dangers of viewing the other with distrust and suspicion,” Elisha Wiesel said Wednesday evening…
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