Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Rabbi Slams Donald Trump — and Israel — in Muhammad Ali Funeral Speech
(JTA) — Cassius Clay won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics when he was 18 years old. Speaking to the media in the Italian capital, he talked up his love of country. Then, he returned to his native Louisville, Kentucky, and instead of a hero’s welcome, the boxer encountered segregation and derision, an experience that would…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Vows To Help Stop Donald Trump — Stops Short of Quitting Race
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders said after meeting Thursday with President Barack Obama that he looked forward to working with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump, but stopped short of quitting the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. “Donald Trump would clearly to my mind and a majority of Americans would be a disaster,” Sanders said,…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Personally Set His Campaign’s Nasty Tone: Report
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders drove much of his campaign’s bitter rhetoric toward Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment in recent months, according to an expose. “At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders,” Politico reported in the article posted Tuesday night,…
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Fast Forward Lawmaker Dumps GOP Over ‘Racist’ Donald Trump — Says Jews May Be Next Target
WASHINGTON — An Iowa state legislator who quit the Republican Party because of Donald Trump wondered if the candidate’s next target would be Jews. David Johnson, a state senator, told The Guardian on Tuesday that his breaking point was Trump’s racially tinged attacks on a judge of Mexican parentage presiding over a lawsuit alleging that…
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Fast Forward ‘Mississippi Burning’ Anniversary Marked With Candles — and Attacks on Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — A liberal Jewish political action committee is marking the anniversary of the murders of three civil rights workers with a call to action against Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Vigils will be held in four cities on June 21, the 52nd anniversary of the 1964 murders in Mississippi of Andrew Goodman,…
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Fast Forward Kosovo May Build Synagogue or Center for Jewish Community
PRISTINA — The Jewish community of Kosovo is in discussions with the country’s authorities to establish a synagogue or Jewish community center. Jewish community representatives have recently held discussions with the government and with municipal authorities in Pristina, the Balkan country’s capital and largest city, and in Prizren, the historical town where much of the…
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News Donald Trump Faces Summer of Yucks and Jeers From Liberal Jews
Boycott Trump? Mock Trump? Trump, the musical? Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, is convening its first national conference here next week aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real…
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Fast Forward 1941 Baghdad Pogrom Commemorated With Candle Lightings
WASHINGTON — The author of a work on the Nazi-era massacre in Baghdad believed to have precipitated the Jewish exodus from Iraq is commemorating its 75th anniversary with candle lightings in four cities. Edwin Black, who in 2010 published “The Farhud,” about the June 1-2, 1941 massacre of at least 180 Jews in Baghdad, will…
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