Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward AIPAC’s new PAC is now the country’s biggest pro-Israel PAC, and endorses 3/4 of Republicans who embraced election falsehoods
It has delivered $6 million to 326 candidates.
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Fast Forward Israeli police raid Al-Aqsa mosque to quell rioting by Palestinians
(JTA) — Israeli police raided Al-Aqsa mosque during riots on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a rare incursion that headed off for now tensions stoked by the confluence of Passover and Ramadan. After police quelled the riots, some 60,000 Palestinians prayed at the site holy to both Jews and Muslims. Palestinian first responders said over…
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Fast Forward An Israeli astronaut is bringing matzo to the International Space Station
(JTA) — An Israeli astronaut is making a decidedly low-tech delivery to the International Space Station: handmade matzo. Eytan Stibbe, 64, is one of three astronauts paying for the privilege of launching into space on Friday, in an initiative of Axiom Space, a private company based in Houston. Chabad of the Space and Treasure Coasts…
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Fast Forward This Michigan primary battle is a bellwether of American Jewish politics
(JTA) — In January, Michigan’s 11th district was redrawn as part of statewide congressional map changes. Two incumbent Democratic House representatives first elected in 2018, Haley Stevens and Andy Levin, soon went from cordial allies to primary opponents, each hoping to win the Detroit-area seat come November. Not long after, an email sent by Daniel…
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Fast Forward Shooting in downtown Tel Aviv leaves at least 6 in serious condition
(JTA) — This is a developing story. (JTA) — At least one gunman shot people at different locations along a downtown Tel Aviv street on Thursday night, leaving what Israeli emergency responders said were at least six people injured in serious condition. One was said to be in critical condition, according to the Magen David…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy: Ukraine will look more like ‘Big Israel’ than Europe in the wake of Russia’s war
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Jewish president, said his country will look more like Israel, a democracy on constant military alert, than like their more relaxed European neighbors, given the prospect of long-term tensions with Russia. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday at a briefing for Ukrainian media,…
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Fast Forward Amnesty USA chief to lawmakers who criticized him: ‘I regret’ speaking for US Jews about Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The director of Amnesty International’s U.S. branch apologized to Jewish lawmakers for claiming to speak on behalf of American Jews. “I regret representing the views of the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien said in a March 25 letter, first reported by Jewish Insider, to all 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of…
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Fast Forward Noam Shalit, the Israeli father whose campaign led to the release of his captive son, dies at 68
(JTA) — When Noam Shalit first learned that his son, Gilad, had disappeared, his thoughts turned to his own father. Noam’s twin brother, Yoel, went missing in the Golan Heights in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War. Their father immediately set off for the war battered plateau to search for Yoel, who was 19, the…
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