Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor wishes Tik Tok a Shabbat Shalom and gets spammed with antisemitic hate
(JTA) — Lily Ebert is 97. Her great-grandson, Dov Forman, helped her create a Tik Tok account so she could tell its youthful community about surviving Auschwitz. On May 14, instead of one of her pithy recollections, Ebert had a simple message for 90,000 followers, delivered from her London home: “Wishing you a lovely, peaceful…
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Fast Forward President Biden: Attacks on Jewish community ‘must stop’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden on Monday condemned attacks on Jews in the United States and overseas, saying “they must stop. His pronouncement on Twitter came days after leading national Jewish organizations urged him to speak out. “The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop,” Biden tweeted. “I condemn…
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Fast Forward Congressional committee could ask Biden to delay missile aid to Israel as fighting continues
(JTA) — President Joseph Biden “expressed support for a ceasefire,” the White House said, as fighting continued and the number of Gaza Palestinians killed topped 200. A key congressional panel in the meantime may call on Biden to pause for a week or so the process transferring of precision-guided missiles to Israel, which would be…
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Fast Forward Biden says Israel has a ‘right to defend itself’ as he sends envoy to deescalate conflict
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Saying that Israel has a right to defend itself, President Joe Biden has sent his top Israeli-Palestinian negotiator to the region in a bid to deescalate the deepening conflict there. During a White House press conference Wednesday afternoon, Biden said he had just spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had…
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Fast Forward In a sign of greater willingness to criticize Israel, Democrats blame both Israel and Hamas for current conflict
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, when AIPAC wanted a Democrat to sponsor the pro-Israel lobby’s signature legislative effort, it turned to one of its most reliable partners in the Senate, Chris Coons of Delaware. Coons contributed to a result the group wanted: having the $3.8 billion in U.S. defense assistance Israel gets each year codified…
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News The fighting in Gaza, Jerusalem and across Israel, explained
(JTA) — Rocket attacks in Israel. Airstrikes in Gaza. Violence in Jerusalem’s holiest sites. Protests across the city. It feels like Israel is in chaos. What is going on? And why is it happening now? Here’s what you need to know. What is happening in Israel right now? Is this another war? Not yet —…
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News Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s Democratic ‘master of disaster,’ has stepped down. But he may not be gone for long.
(JTA) — The tweet pinned to the top of Jared Moskowitz’s feed is a 46-word rebuke. All 46 words are “MASKS,” and Moskowitz, Florida’s youthful director of emergency management until last Friday, acknowledged that a prime target of the tweet was his boss, Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The governor and I, you know, disagree on masks,”…
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Fast Forward A Democratic pro-Israel group calls a longtime Jewish leader an enabler of antisemitism, exposing a fault line in the party
(JTA) — Tensions among Jewish groups allied with the Biden administration blew into the open this week when a Democratic pro-Israel group briefly called a longtime Jewish leader an enabler of antisemitism — a sign of how potent a debate over a definition of antisemitism has become. Nancy Kaufman led Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council…
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