Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Ratner posted a photo of his new immigrant passbook and captioned it with his name in Hebrew
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The long-serving Jewish senator from California was a leading Democratic voice for more than three decades
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The White House rolls out a broad expansion of the landmark Civil Rights Act, part of Joe Biden’s strategy to combat antisemitism
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“We have watched in horror as a new stage in antisemitic discourse has spread like wildfire on one of America’s largest social media networks,” said the letter
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