Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Security Officials Urge Business-as-Usual for the High Holy Days
WASHINGTON – In a pre-Rosh Hashanah briefing, Jewish community and U.S. security officials urged Jewish institutions to be resilient and keep up morale in the face of terrorist threats. Hundreds of officials from more than one hundred institutions across the country participated in the call on Friday. Speakers included Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community…
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Fast Forward Clinton Backs Israel in Meeting With Benjamin Netanyahu — Trump Vows Jerusalem Embassy Move
(JTA) — Hillary Clinton said she opposed any U.N. Security Council bid to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just hours after a summit between the Israeli leader and Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s meetings with the Democratic nominee and, earlier Sunday, with her Republican rival were…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump’s Ex-Wife Marla Maples Is Christian — but Keeps Kosher and Shabbat
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s ex-wife Marla Maples is a Christian who keeps the Jewish Sabbath and eats kosher. A profile posted Thursday by The Daily Beast said that Maples, a Baptist, regularly attends church, “but keeps Shabbat, eats kosher, and studies Kabbalah.” Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, left his first wife, Ivana, for Maples, whom…
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Fast Forward Does Rise of Anti-Semitism Create ‘Acute’ Need for Jewish Security Grants?
WASHINGTON — Painting a grim picture of Jewish vulnerability in the United States, a top U.S. security official said that the vast majority of funds earmarked to secure non-profits goes to Jewish institutions because their need is most acute. Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy homeland security secretary, speaking Wednesday to the Orthodox Union’s annual leadership mission…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Wants World To Push Iran on Denial
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to press Iran’s leadership on its Holocaust denial during the U.N. General Assembly. “We want to make sure that the upcoming discussion at the United Nations is informed by facts about official Iranian efforts to promote racism and extremism in the form of Holocaust denial,”…
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Fast Forward 88 Senators Urge Obama To Veto Any ‘One-Sided’ U.N. Push on Israel
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan slate of 88 senators urged President Barack Obama to veto any “one-sided” U.N. Security Council resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We urge you to continue longstanding U.S. policy and make it clear that you will veto any one-sided UNSC resolution that may be offered in the coming months,” said the letter…
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Fast Forward Jewish World War II POW Slams ‘Insulting’ Donald Trump in Campaign Ad
WASHINGTON — A Jewish World War II prisoner of war appeared in an ad for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying her rival Donald Trump “insulted all of our military.” The ad released Friday on social media shows Joel Sollender, 91, of San Diego, Calif., watching Trump, the Republican nominee, disparaging Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last year during…
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Fast Forward Congresswoman Nixes Pro-BDS Briefing on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — A congresswoman whose office was set to sponsor the first conference in a congressional building backing the boycott Israel movement withdrew her support, cancelling the event. The office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, on Tuesday told The Weekly Standard, a conservative news website, that the event, organized by the U.S. Campaign to…
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