Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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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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Fast Forward In deal to avoid prosecution, Michael Steinhardt is barred for life from collecting antiquities
(JTA) — Michael Steinhardt, the hedge funder and megadonor to Jewish causes, has agreed to surrender 180 stolen antiquities worth $70 million to their rightful homelands and to never again collect ancient artifacts. In exchange, Steinhardt will avoid criminal charges related to an investigation that found he had acquired, owned and sold more than 1,000…
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Fast Forward Ed Shames, ‘Band of Brothers’ vet who toasted son’s bar mitzvah with Hitler’s cognac, dies at 99
(JTA) –When Ed Shames described his Jewish self, he used the term “tough SOB.” Shames, the oldest surviving member of the legendary Easy Company parachute infantry regiment, could also have added “patient.” Shames, who died Dec. 3 at age 99 at his home in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1945 secured bottles of cognac designated for Hitler’s…
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Fast Forward Kosher food becomes a BDS flashpoint on a Toronto college campus
(JTA) — After an outcry and a rebuke from the University of Toronto president, the student union at a satellite campus modified a proposed ban on kosher foods in any way affiliated with Israel, but a campus Jewish campus group said the change made matters worse. The board of directors of the University of Toronto…
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Fast Forward Fox News host Lara Logan compares Fauci to Nazi doctor Mengele, and Auschwitz museum calls it ‘shameful’
(JTA) — Fox News host Lara Logan compared Anthony Fauci, the top official handling the U.S. coronavirus response, to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz death camp. Logan was speaking on “Fox News Primetime” on Monday about the prospect of new restrictive measures in the wake of the…
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