Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
-
Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Progressive Movement Names Board Members
WASHINGTON — A prominent Jewish union leader and one of Bernie Sanders’ oldest friends and advisers are on the board of a movement launched by Sanders to drive the Democratic Party toward more progressive values. Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont and the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests, launched “Our Revolution”…
-
Fast Forward Donald Trump Disavows Endorsement From David Duke
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump once again disavowed David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who is urging Louisiana voters to send him to the Senate and Trump to the White House. “Mr. Trump has continued to denounce David Duke and any group or individual associated with a message of hate,” his campaign told Politico…
-
Fast Forward Seattle Jewish Republican Says Community Forced Him To Dump Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — A prominent Jewish Republican donor is no longer backing Donald Trump, saying his support made him unpopular in Seattle’s Jewish community. “Do you know what it’s like being a Jewish Republican in Seattle?” Martin Selig, a developer and a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition board, told the Seattle Times this week. “The…
-
News Why Is Donald Trump’s Doctor Talking About Hillary Clinton’s Health — or Tweeting in Italian?
Just when you thought Election 2016 couldn’t get weirder, Donald Trump’s Jewish doctor, who reassures us the nominee will be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” has a thing for Italian so intense, he delivered a speech in the language – at his son’s bar mitzvah. And at least according to one account,…
-
News Donald Trump Has a Plan To Keep Out Anti-Semites. Does It Make Any Sense?
(JTA) — How extreme does vetting need to be to keep anti-Semites from entering the United States, and is Donald Trump’s plan worth the effort? The Republican nominee’s proposal to apply an ideological test to potential immigrants is based on precedent: The United States in the last century instituted a broad ban on communists and…
-
Fast Forward White House Concedes Link Between $400M and Prisoner Release
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged that the release of $400 million in cash to Iran in January was linked to Iran’s release of American prisoners, but rejected notions it was a ransom payment. “With concerns that Iran may renege on the prisoner release given unnecessary delays regarding persons in Iran who could not be…
-
Fast Forward Baltimore Dumps Lawyer Over Neo-Nazi Ties
WASHINGTON — The City of Baltimore cut ties with a lawyer after an advocacy group exposed his ties to neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial groups. The office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake terminated its contract with Glen Keith Allen, effective immediately, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported Thursday afternoon. The SPLC posted on its website documents showing…
-
Fast Forward Trump Adviser Denies Firing Jews From Top Jobs and Denying Holocaust
WASHINGTON — A foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump allegedly boasted about firing Jews from his government department and denied the Holocaust to a colleague. Joseph Schmitz denies the allegations against him, which concern comments accusers say he made while he was the Defense Department’s Inspector General, the McClatchy news agency reported on Thursday. He…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 2
News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
- 3
Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
- 4
News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion How would Jews fleeing Europe have fared under Trump’s anti-immigration policies?
-
Fast Forward Most American Jews believe Zohran Mamdani will make NYC Jews less safe, Israeli poll finds
-
Fast Forward Palestinian restaurant opening near Columbia names its location to honor girl killed in Gaza, campus protesters
-
Fast Forward NC activists claimed ‘victory’ in their Israel-divestment push. The state treasury says they’re wrong.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
