Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Texas synagogue hostages released safely after 11-hour standoff; captor killed
An 11-hour standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, ended late Saturday night with the rabbi and other hostages released safely and the suspect dead, police and political officials said. The suspect, a 44-year-old British national named Malik Faisal Akram, disrupted Shabbat-morning services as they were being livestreamed on Facebook and held its rabbi and…
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Fast Forward A marketing firm that works with Jewish groups, Big Duck, has nixed a potential client because of its Israel ties
(JTA) — A marketing firm that has worked extensively with Jewish nonprofits has declined to work with one because of growing concerns among its staff members about groups with “significant programming in Israel.” The Shalom Hartman Institute, a leading Jewish educational think tank, reached out to Big Duck, a Brooklyn-based worker-owned cooperative, because of Big…
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Fast Forward Utah tech boss quits after board asks him to leave over email blaming Jews for COVID
(JTA) — The board of directors of a Utah-based property management software firm asked its chairman to quit after he sent an email accusing Jews of planning “genocide” through COVID and its vaccine. “Entrata’s board of directors today asked Dave Bateman to resign from the company’s board of directors, including his position as chairman,” said…
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Fast Forward Tech boss emails associates, including Utah governor, to say COVID is a deadly Jewish plot
Editor’s note: After an immediate backlash, Bateman announced his resignation from the company on Tuesday night. (JTA) — The founder and chairman of a major property management software firm told a coterie of associates, including the governor of Utah, that COVID was a deadly Jewish plot. “I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to…
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Fast Forward Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations invokes Harry Potter magic in message to Emma Watson
(JTA) — Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, had a message for the actress Emma Watson after an Instagram account in her name posted a message that was in apparent solidarity with Palestinians: It’ll take more than magic to solve the conflict. “Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work…
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Fast Forward The founder of Jumpstart wants to be Arizona’s first Jewish governor
(JTA) — In the summer of 1993, Arizona native Aaron Lieberman made friends with three other Jewish college students while working at a camp in upstate New York for kids with social, educational and emotional challenges. The four, including David Carmel, Rebecca Weintraub and Jordan Meranus, saw the substantial effect that one-on-one attention had on…
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Fast Forward Harry Reid, the two-fisted majority leader with deep Jewish ties, dies at 82
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Harry Reid was 19, he wanted to marry Landra Gould. Her Jewish parents had other ideas. Reid, a middleweight boxer, got into a fistfight with Gould’s father in the Goulds’ front yard. And then he and Landra eloped. Reid’s pugilistic sensibility served him well, lifting him up from abject poverty through…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg leans into United Hatzalah, donates $5 million to honor her parents
(JTA) — Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, wants more women to lean into saving lives. Sandberg gave United Hatzalah, the Jerusalem-based volunteer first responder organization, $5 million in honor of her parents at a Miami fundraiser on Tuesday. The money will go toward United Hatzalah’s women’s unit in Israel,…
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