Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward White House Holocaust council appointees include many with deep ties to advocacy for survivors
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration is naming 12 people to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, many of who have longstanding ties to advocacy for Holocaust survivors and for Holocaust education. Among those to be named Wednesday in a list obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is Stuart Eizenstat, who has for decades led…
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Fast Forward Jewish Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court and one of its minority of three liberal justices, is set to retire, multiple reports said Wednesday. The move would leave Elena Kagan as the only Jewish justice left on the court. Breyer, 83, has come under pressure to retire ever since President…
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Fast Forward Jewish groups slam top Presbyterian official for equating Israeli occupation with ‘slavery’ days after Texas attack
(JTA) — U.S. Jewish groups slammed a top Presbyterian Church official for Martin Luther King Day remarks that equated Israel’s West Bank occupation with slavery and implied that American Jews have the influence to get the U.S. government to end it. “The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished immediately,” Rev….
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Fast Forward Biden yanks Trump appointee who spoke to white supremacists from commission that monitors Holocaust sites
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden removed from a commission that monitors Holocaust sites a Trump appointee with ties to white supremacists. In a letter obtained by a reporter for Politico, the White House asked Darren Beattie on Jan. 14 to resign from the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad by the end…
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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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