Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Civil rights group told Duke University it is ‘legally obligated’ to recognize a pro-Israel organization
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish civil rights group is demanding that the administration of Duke University override the student government after its president denied recognition to a campus pro-Israel group. In November, the student government president, Christina Wang, decided to veto a student Senate vote to charter Duke SSI, the campus chapter of the international campus Zionist…
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Fast Forward Fox News removes cartoon depicting George Soros as a ‘puppet master’ after ADL complains
(JTA) — Fox News removed from social media a cartoon depicting George Soros as a puppet master after the Anti-Defamation League called out the conservative news giant for peddling antisemitic tropes. “As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up…
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Fast Forward ADL joins lawsuit against groups allegedly behind Jan. 6 insurrection
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has joined the District of Columbia attorney-general in a lawsuit against two extremist groups that allegedly help organize the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The civil rights group and antisemitism watchdog said it helped identify plaintiffs in the case. A congressional panel is scrutinizing the insurrection and…
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Fast Forward Max Miller, a Jewish former Trump aide, was headed for a House seat in Ohio. Then his district disappeared.
(JTA) — Max Miller, a 32-year-old former Trump aide running for a congressional seat in Ohio, is finally getting the buzz of media coverage that candidates crave in under-the-radar district races. It’s just not exactly the type of press he would like. Miller, the scion of two well-known Cleveland Jewish families, is running for a…
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Fast Forward House committee debates antisemitism as it considers bill to create Islamophobia monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bill that would create an Islamophobia monitor in much the same cast as the State Department’s antisemitism monitor cleared its first hurdle on Friday, after a House committee debate about antisemitism. The bill, whose lead sponsors were Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of three Muslims in Congress, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky,…
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Fast Forward Conservative justices grill Maine on policy denying tuition for religious schools
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Amy Coney Barrett, the newest justice on the Supreme Court, asked a Maine state official how he would treat a school that based its teachings about the “Jewish-Palestinian” conflict on how it regarded Jews. Justice Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, suggested the state’s school-funding policies poses an undue burden on Orthodox Jewish parents who…
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Fast Forward ‘It’s about Hanukkah,’ Fox News host says about Christmas trees after her network’s burns down
(JTA) — For one thing, Hanukkah is over. For another, you mark the holiday by burning candles, not entire fir trees. Maybe that was what Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt was getting at when she said that the man arrested for allegedly burning down the Christmas tree outside Fox News Channel headquarters in New York…
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Fast Forward In Israel for Miss Universe competition, Puerto Rican contestant reveals that her great-grandfather survived the Holocaust
(JTA) — When she won the privilege of representing Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe contest, Michelle Marie Colon spoke of her pride in making history as the first Black woman from the territory to seize the honor. This week in Israel, where the contest is being held, she has been touting pride in another…
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