Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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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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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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