Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Neoconservative Norman Podhoretz Backs Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — Norman Podhoretz, a founder of the neoconservative movement, said he backs Donald Trump for president. With his endorsement in an interview this week in the Times of Israel, the former editor of Commentary magazine parts ways with the many neoconservatives who say they cannot support the Republican nominee because of his foreign policy…
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Fast Forward 3 Jewy Things About Elan Kriegel, Hillary Clinton’s Number Cruncher
(JTA) — Politico ran a of Elan Kriegel, Hillary Clinton’s analytics person, and portrayed him as something of a hidden hand, a genius lurking behind curtains. Kriegel crunches the numbers over how much the campaign spends on voter outreach, and when and where. He earned his chops on Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, and is among…
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Fast Forward Retired Jewish General Organized Pro-Donald Trump Military Statement
(JTA) — Retired Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, who helped initiate the letter released this week by the Trump campaign from 88 military leaders endorsing the Republican nominee, says Trump “has the temperament to be commander-in-chief.” Shachnow knows from temperament, although not perhaps of the Trumpian variety: As a child, he and his family survived the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Says Israel Faces Destruction Unless He’s Elected President
WASHINGTON ( — Donald Trump said if he is not elected president, the Iran nuclear deal will destroy Israel. Last year’s deal, which trades sanctions relief for a nuclear rollback, “is going to destroy Israel — unless I get elected,” Trump told Cleveland-area labor leaders on Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. “Then Israel will…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Trade Barbs Over Iran ‘Secret Side Deal’
(JTA) — The Trump and Clinton campaigns issued tough-on-Iran statements in the wake of a report that alleges that negotiators allowed Iran secret loopholes in the nuclear agreement. The Institute for Science and International Affairs, a think tank founded by a former United Nations nuclear weapons inspector, David Albright, said in a report released this…
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Fast Forward Mel Gibson Plans Jesus Resurrection Flick — Revisits ‘Passion’ Controversy
— Mel Gibson confirmed that he is making a movie about the resurrection of Jesus, recalling that he had the “tar kicked out of” him for his movie about the last days of the Christian messiah, “The Passion of the Christ.” “That’s a very big subject and it needs to be looked at because we…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Movement Backs Pro-Israel Candidates — and Fierce Critics
(JTA) — A Florida state senator caught up in a boycott-Israel controversy. A Wisconsin state representative who combated anti-Israel bias on his campus. The diversity of Israel-related outlooks among the 63 candidates endorsed by Our Revolution underscores the eclecticism of the left-leaning movement launched last week by Bernie Sanders. The endorsed candidates represent an opening…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Demolishing Donald Trump by 52%-to-23% Among Jewish Voters
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish voters favor Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump 52 to 23 percent, according to poll tracking by Gallup. The only religious group showing stronger favorability ratings for the Democratic nominee in data collected from July 1-Aug. 28 is Muslims, who favor Clinton over Trump 64 to 9 percent, according to the…
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