Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Netanyahu government advances judicial reforms as protests intensify to include IDF reservists
El Al might be unable to fly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a state trip to Rome this week because too few employees are willing to work the trip
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Fast Forward A US envoy reminds European nations of their complicity in the Holocaust
Ellen Germain makes the case for removing or at least modifying plaques, statues and other memorials to people who collaborated with the Nazis
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Fast Forward White House says it will not meet with Israel’s Bezalel Smotrich when he visits the US
'No U.S. government meetings are planned for this trip,' a national security spokesman said. That includes officials at the U.S. Treasury, the counterpart to Smotrich’s Finance Ministry.
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Fast Forward ADL, AJC join Orthodox groups in Supreme Court case on supporting religious protections in the workplace
The right of religious expression in the workplace has long been a unifying cause across the Jewish spectrum
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Fast Forward After police clash with Tel Aviv protesters who blocked highway, Netanyahu likens demonstrations to settlers who rioted
Netanyahu warned that the protests would face retaliation, although he did not say what shape that backlash might take. The speech occurred as protesters surrounded Netanyahu’s wife in a Tel Aviv hair salon
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News Hard-liner Bezalel Smotrich was just put in charge of Israel’s settlements. Here’s what that means.
The new Israeli Finance Minister and his ideological foes are portraying his new job as the harbinger of a sea change in the West Bank
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Fast Forward Trump’s ambassador to Israel criticizes its government’s plans for judicial reform
'You compare this to the U.S., but it doesn’t work like that in our system,' Friedman told a key architect of the Netanyahu government’s planned judicial reforms
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Fast Forward Avi Maoz, Israeli politician and ‘proud homophobe,’ resigns from deputy minister role
Avi Maoz said Netanyahu broke a promise to transfer some Education Ministry responsibilities to him
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