Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Coalition Pushes for Beleaguered GOP Senators
WASHINGTON — The Republican Jewish Coalition said it reached 25,000 people on a day of campaigning in Jewish neighborhoods in swing states where incumbent Republican senators are at risk. About 200 RJC volunteers, sporting “RJC Victory Team” t-shirts, spread out Sunday to go door-to-door in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Cleveland and Broward County Florida. Incumbent…
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Fast Forward Michigan Republican Sorry for Tall Tale About Jewish Wedding Bar Tab
— A candidate for the Michigan state legislature apologized for saying a Jewish lawmaker asked a lobbying firm to pay for the bar tab at his daughter’s wedding. Steve Marino, a Republican and former lobbyist running for the Michigan House of Representatives, was recorded by a Democrat as saying that the Jewish chairman of the state Senate’s…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Jr. Posts ‘Deplorables’ Meme With White Supremacist Cartoon Frog
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. posted to Instagram a movie poster parody of himself heroically grouped with others deemed “The Deplorables,” including a cartoon frog that has become a popular symbol for white supremacists. “Apparently I made the cut as one of ‘the Deplorables,’” Trump Jr. said in the posting Sunday of the image, which…
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Blames Sexism for ‘Hysteria’ Over Hillary Clinton Stumble
WASHINGTON — Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister of Israel, said the intense media focus on Hillary Clinton’s health after she stumbled in public amounted to “hysteria” and would not be applied to a man. “I don’t know what Hillary Clinton has and I don’t intend to engage with the U.S. elections,” Livni, a leading figure…
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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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