Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
-
The Schmooze Coen Bros Defend #OscarsSoJewish Moviemaking Outlook
(JTA) — Asked about diversity in Hollywood last week, the Coen brothers defended to the Washington Post their history of making movies about Jews and Minnesotans. The Oscars So White controversy, #OscarsSoWhite, may reflect a real problem, the film writing-directing-producing duo agreed: Money drives commercial movies, people who invest money want more of what has…
-
Fast Forward New ADL Chief Courts Younger Generation With Nod to Silicon Valley
(JTA) — Framed by a slide of two young guys in jeans and T-shirts playing ping-pong on the Facebook campus, Jonathan Greenblatt described an event hosted by the social media behemoth in Palo Alto, California, the week before. “Some of the stuff we’ve done has been really exciting, like in Silicon Valley,” Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation…
-
Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders on Iran at Debate
(JTA) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders snapped at one another over the Jewish senator’s Iran policy in their final debate before the New Hampshire primary contest, with the former secretary of state twice suggesting it would endanger Israel. The NBC moderators of the debate in Durham, New Hampshire, on Thursday night pressed Sanders, an…
-
News Is Donald Trump Done and 4 Other Questions for Jewish Voters After Iowa
(JTA) — The Iowa caucuses are over — and the first real test of the presidential candidates’ viability gave us more questions than answers. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won the Republican caucus, relegating Donald Trump, the real estate billionaire, to second place. Both Trump and Cruz ran insurgent anti-establishment campaigns. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., put…
-
News 3 Jewish Things About Each of the Leading Presidential Candidates as Iowa Nears
(JTA) — On Monday, Iowans will gather to launch the 2016 presidential election with an arcane ritual — the caucus. In living rooms and meeting halls throughout the state, caucus-goers will group themselves into clusters according to which presidential candidate they favor. By the end of the day, two real-life winners will emerge: not a…
-
Fast Forward Collapse of Peace Talks Spurs War of Words Against Israeli Settlements
(JTA) — The collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process a year ago has led to an accelerating war of words over Israeli settlements, with Israel accusing its growing chorus of foreign critics of prejudging the final terms of a peace deal at best – and anti-Semitism at worst. The battle heated up this week with…
-
The Schmooze ‘SNL’ Mocks Ted Cruz’s ‘New York Values’ Attack as ‘Anti-Seinfeld’
(JTA) After the latest Republican presidential debate, there was speculation in media that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s jibes about “New York values” had sinister undertones. Cruz’s broadside against the city may have been aimed at his rival and New York City native Donald Trump, but his invocation of values that “are socially liberal, pro-abortion, pro-gay…
-
Fast Forward As Bernie Sanders Surges in Polls, Are Jews Feeling ‘the Bern’?
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Talk of a Bernie Sanders presidency has suddenly become a lot more serious. Recent polling shows the independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful dramatically improving his prospects in the first two primary states against front-runner Hillary Clinton. Two polls out this week — by the Des Moines Register and Quinnipiac University…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Sports An op-ed compared an NBA team to Israel as underdog success stories. Then the threats poured in.
- 2
News Mamdani’s first Jewish Heritage event reveals a narrowed circle
- 3
News ‘It’s the Jews’: San Diego mosque shooters decried ‘the universal enemy’ in hate-filled manifesto
- 4
Opinion Netanyahu is facing electoral catastrophe — and could place Israel in existential peril
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Trump announces he has ‘largely negotiated’ Iran deal, Strait of Hormuz opening
-
Opinion In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different
-
Art This Jewish artist hadn’t painted in more than 5 decades. Then came Oct. 7.
-
Opinion How can I explain to my 93-year-old mother why it suddenly seems ok to hate Jews?