Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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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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Fast Forward Gunman kills 5 in multiple shootings east of Tel Aviv
(JTA) — Five people were killed and at least one was critically injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on pedestrians in multiple municipalities near Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Kann, Israel’s government-run radio service, said the attack took place Tuesday evening where Bnei Brak, a largely haredi Orthodox municipality, runs into Ramat Gan, a Tel…
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Fast Forward Israel to convene leaders from Abraham Accords nations in a historic summit
(JTA) — Israel is convening a summit of the top diplomats of the United States and three of the four Arab countries that normalized relations under the Abraham Accords, a sign that ties are getting closer. Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister will meet with his counterparts from the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain during…
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Fast Forward Antony Blinken often cites his family’s Holocaust history. The Russia-Ukraine war has him stuck between the personal and the political.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited his family’s Holocaust-era history in explaining a matter of U.S. foreign policy on Monday, it was far from the first time he has done so. “One of my responsibilities as Secretary is determining, on behalf of the United States, whether atrocities have been committed,” Blinken,…
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Fast Forward Madeleine Albright, the first woman secretary of state who discovered her Jewish roots late, dies at 84
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Madeleine Albright was the quintessential late 20th-century Jewish diplomat, haunted by the Holocaust and determined to use what tools her adopted country had to crush inhumanity when it arose. Except she didn’t know she was Jewish until she was in her 50s, or so she claimed, a revelation that led some Jews…
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Fast Forward Conservatives confuse Black ‘Israelite’ groups in labeling Ketanji Brown Jackson as soft on antisemitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked to describe a case she tried as a judge that moved her. She cited one that involved a Black group with a base in Israel, one that Israel’s foreign ministry has credited with enhancing its public diplomacy. That didn’t stop conservatives on Twitter from claiming erroneously that…
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