Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward For US officials, Israeli hostage deal brings joy — and hard questions about how much more war to support
As Israel pauses its war with Hamas to allow for the release of hostages, it will face questions about how, and whether, it restarts its war to defeat the terror group behind the abductions
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Fast Forward HIAS and other groups ask Biden administration to extend protected status to Israelis in US
Palestinian non-citizens in the United States are reportedly under consideration to be eligible for protected status
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Fast Forward 2 more Jewish Democrats, Jamie Raskin and Sarah Jacobs, join growing calls for a ceasefire
Jewish Democrats are shifting their positions on he war as it enters its sixth week, the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip intensifies and the Palestinian death toll climbs
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Fast Forward ‘Unacceptable’ and a ‘moral failure’: In a shift, Jewish lawmakers Ossoff, Balint and Phillips ramp up criticism on Israel’s conduct
A wall of support for Israel might be crumbling among Jewish Democrats in Congress
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Fast Forward IBM pulls its ads from Twitter/X after Elon Musk calls an antisemitic post the ‘actual truth’
This was Musk's most explicit endorsement of antisemitism to date
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Fast Forward ‘A constant series of lies’: George Santos, who lied about being Jewish, says he won’t run again after House ethics report
Republicans and Democrats alike immediately said they would seek Santos’ expulsion before his term ends
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Fast Forward Members of Congress evacuated as police crack down on Jewish anti-Israel protesters outside Democratic HQ
The police accused protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow of violence. The protesters said it was the police who were violent
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Fast Forward Polls show American Jews approve of Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war while Americans do not
Jewish approval of Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war appears to stem from appreciation for his wholehearted backing for Israel as well as the traditional Jewish tendency to favor Democrats
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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Fast Forward Barney Frank’s final warning on Israel: ‘America’s effort should be to support the opposition to Netanyahu’
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Yiddish ייִדן פֿלעגן באַשווערן רוחות און שלאַנגען אויף ווײַסרוסישJews used to conjure spirits and snakes in Belarusian
בײַ ייִדן איז פֿאַראַן אַן אַלטע טראַדיציע צו שרײַבן רײַסישע סגולות מיט ייִדישע אותיות.
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Republican Thomas Massie ousted from Congress as Trump endorsee wins primary