Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Biden offers assistance to Israel in aftermath of Lag B’Omer tragedy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden offered assistance to Israel in the wake of a deadly stampede on Lag b’Omer in Israel’s North. Biden said in a statement released Friday by the White House that he had called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The loss of life among worshipers practicing their faith is heartbreaking,” Biden said….
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Fast Forward Jewish policy umbrella calls China’s treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority ‘genocide’
(JTA) — The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the main policy umbrella for U.S. Jewish groups, resolved to protest what it called China’s “genocide” of its Muslim Uyghur minority. “The Jewish community should call upon the CCP to end the genocide and exploitation of the Uyghurs, as well as halt the oppression of other ethnic…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s bust will be featured in the National Cathedral. He may (or may not) be the first Jew to get the honor.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Washington’s National Cathedral is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist, with a bust, the first Jew to be so honored. Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit. “I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person,” the cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said after…
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Fast Forward Israel orders the deportation of dozens of African Hebrew Israelites
(JTA) — Israel has ordered the departure of 46 families belonging to the community of African Hebrew Israelites within 60 days. Prince Immanuel Ben-Yehuda, a spokesman for the community, told The Associated Press on Monday that the Interior Ministry’s order was a “shock to the system.” The ministry said the deportations could be appealed. The…
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Fast Forward Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City
(JTA) — Aviva Okeson-Haberman had come home after apartment hunting in Lawrence, Kansas, where the reporter for the Kansas City NPR affiliate was about to start a new job covering social services and criminal justice. On Friday, Okeson-Haberman was hit by a stray bullet that entered her first-floor apartment in Kansas City’s Santa Fe neighborhood….
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Fast Forward 75% of House members back no conditions on aid to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than three-quarters of House members oppose placing any conditions on aid to Israel, including some progressives from the Democratic Party’s left wing. They made the point clear in a letter sent Thursday to the body’s chief appropriators. The letter to Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, and…
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Fast Forward Virginia Republicans will have convention voting on Shabbat
(JTA) — The Virginia Republican Party, already under fire for a process for picking a gubernatorial candidate that critics say excludes some voters, just disenfranchised another constituency: Shabbat-observant Jews. A majority of the State Central Committee voted Thursday for a religious exemption to voting at the convention taking place on May 8, a Saturday, but…
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Fast Forward In Congress, bipartisan support grows for bills backing expanded Israeli-Arab ties
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top Democratic and Republican lawmakers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee have joined a bill that supports the expansion of normalization agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It’s a sign of increasing bipartisan support for the initiative launched by former President Donald Trump. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the New York Democrat…
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