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Ron Kampeas
Ron Kampeas
President Donald Trump has issued few apologies and asked for many in the past year. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/via JTA)
September 22, 2017, 9:42 pm
Apologies and non-apologies in the year of our Trump 5777
How genuine was the contrition this year by public figures who committed various offenses? Spoiler: not very
By Ron Kampeas
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu takes his seat before US President Donald Trump was to speak at the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)
September 20, 2017, 9:44 am
Why Trump’s UN speech thrilled Netanyahu — for the moment, anyway
US president spoke of Iran 12 times, was mum on the Palestinians, and mentioned the word 'sovereign' and its derivatives 21 times
By Ron Kampeas
From left: Whitefish Mayor John Muhlfeld, Rabbi Francine Green Roston and Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, August 25, 2017. The Jewish community in the Montana city was subjected to an onslaught of anti-Semitic harassment over the past year. (Courtesy of Goldenberg/via JTA)
September 16, 2017, 4:18 pm
The Jews of Whitefish, Montana, look ahead after a year of terror
While community of 60 in white supremacist Richard Spencer's home town remains resilient, Rabbi Francine Roston says their lives will never be the same
By Ron Kampeas
Photograph released by the White House of President Donald Trump on a call to US Jewish leaders for the New Year, September 15, 2017 (White House)
September 16, 2017, 12:29 am
Some dismay as Trump holds very brief call with Jewish leaders, takes no queries
Previous such calls featured discussion, tended to last 45 minutes or more; this one-way conversation went on for roughly eight
By Ron Kampeas
US President Donald Trump speaking on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House, June 27, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
September 15, 2017, 4:16 am
Jewish groups that snubbed Trump not invited to High Holidays conference call
Non-Orthodox leaders said last week they would not take part in annual tradition over US president's response to Charlottesville violence
By Ron Kampeas
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer speaks at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC, June 9, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)
September 14, 2017, 8:33 am
Israel will ‘act to enforce’ Syria red lines, its US ambassador says
Ron Dermer: Jewish state won't tolerate Iranian presence on its border, will prevent delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah
By Ron Kampeas
Thousands of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March to oppose the President Trump order to end DACA on September 10, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew/Getty Images/AFP)
September 13, 2017, 4:19 am
Mostly lost amid outcry, Jewish Dreamers also facing expulsion from US
Number of Jews living in US under program for young immigrants is 'not huge but not negligible,' says one activist, reflecting diverse makeup of cohort fighting deportation
By Ron Kampeas
Screen capture from video of author Stephen Halbrook. (YouTube/ Independent Institute)
September 12, 2017, 9:13 pm
ADL alarmed by author speaking to Congress who links gun control, Holocaust
Watchdog pans Stephen Halbrook's assertion that Jews could have defended themselves from Nazis if armed
By Ron Kampeas
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner (left), meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 26, 2017, 12:47 pm
Jared Kushner was in the Middle East. Did Trump’s A team bring a peace plan?
Israelis and Palestinians are still waiting for the US administration to describe its preferred framework to revive the peace process
By Ron Kampeas
Peter Beinart (L) speaking at a J Street session on July 26, 2016. (JTA)
August 23, 2017, 3:29 am
Peter Beinart mocked for tweet on daughter’s fear
The liberal Jewish essayist is met with ridicule on Twitter as he shares his feelings about the white supremacist rally
By Ron Kampeas
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon attending the swearing in of Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the United Nations in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
August 19, 2017, 6:22 am
Was Stephen Bannon good for the Jews? A review
Despite working closely with the pro-Israel right, ousted strategist was seen as the driving force behind Trump's nationalist-populist agenda, making him a hero of the 'alt right'
By Ron Kampeas
Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Washington, speaks to reporters in Washington, DC, Aug. 17, 2017. (Ron Kampeas)
August 18, 2017, 3:51 am
Palestinian Authority demands two-state commitment from US
With Trump team to meet Abbas next week; Palestinian envoy to US urges administration to set out peace endgame, or Ramallah may take unilateral steps
By Ron Kampeas
Michael Signer speaking to “Meet the Press,” August 14, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
August 15, 2017, 3:34 am
Charlottesville’s Jewish mayor is an expert on demagogues, and now on anti-Semitism
Was Michael Signer ready for the white supremacists this past weekend? He wrote the book on demagogues. Literally
By Ron Kampeas
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 13, 2017, 2:44 pm
Hate in Charlottesville: The day the Nazi called me Shlomo
Before the Virginia white supremacist rally turned deadly, a Jewish reporter was confronted with anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and anti-Israel vitriol
By Ron Kampeas
Clockwise from top left: Elissa Slotkin, in blue jacket; Hannah Risheq, in white shirt; Laura Moser; Lisa Mandelblatt, in black shirt. (Courtesy via JTA)
August 10, 2017, 10:35 pm
These Jewish women are running for office because of Trump
Coming from states across America, these 7 candidates are running for Congress to oppose US president's agenda
By Ron Kampeas
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