Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Spitzer Scandal’s Israeli Angle Feels Like Deja Vu
Washington — A fast-rising Democratic governor, an out of control sex drive and an Israeli enabler — it feels like deja vu all over again on the Hudson. Just four years after the then-governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, resigned amid revelations of an affair with his Israeli-born ex-homeland security chief, Golan Cipel, Americans were…
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News Tom Lantos Left Behind Human Rights Legacy
The flags dipped at half-staff over the Capitol, the warm remembrances flooded e-mail inboxes, the “Have you heard?” phone calls took a solemn tone. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) earned all these tributes. He died Monday of esophageal cancer at the age of 80. The mourning was not just for a man but for the…
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Fast Forward Obama Has Courted Jews From Beginning
Ask about Barack Obama’s natural constituencies and you might hear that he’s the first black with a viable shot at the White House, or about his Kenyan father and his childhood in Indonesia, or the youthfulness of his followers, or the millions of Oprah junkies swooning over his candidacy. What you might not hear is…
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News At Tense Summit, Disagreements Divide Bush, Sharon
CRAWFORD, Texas — As photo-ops go, this one didn’t develop quite as expected. The meeting Monday between Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush at Bush’s vast Texas ranch was to have affirmed the special American-Israeli relationship and paved the way forward in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process — a triumphant summit between two friends, farmers…
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