Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Biden says he will reenter Iran deal without new conditions, then negotiate for a new agreement
(JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden established a sequence for how he plans to deal with Iran, and it starts with reentering the 2015 nuclear deal without conditions. Biden’s comments in an interview posted Wednesday by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman were the most detailed account of his plans for reentering the pact, which traded…
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Fast Forward Dianne Feinstein will step down as top Democrat on Senate Judiciary Committee
(JTA) — Dianne Feinstein, the veteran Jewish senator from California, plans to step down from her role as the top Democrat on the powerful Judiciary Committee. “California is a huge state confronting two existential threats — wildfire and drought — that are only getting worse with climate change. In the next Congress, I plan to…
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Fast Forward Seth Rich’s parents, Fox News settle over false claim he was killed for leaking damaging information in 2016 election
(JTA) — Fox News and the parents of Seth Rich, the Jewish Democratic National Committee staffer killed near his Washington, D.C., home in 2016, settled the family’s lawsuit over a story that intimated he was killed for leaking damaging information about Democrats. Joel and Mary Rich said they were “pleased with the settlement of this…
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Fast Forward Trump’s White House is throwing an in-person Hanukkah party despite COVID concerns
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump White House is throwing an in-person Hanukkah party, one of a series of recent events the administration has held despite coronavirus concerns. The reception will be held Dec. 9 in the afternoon, a day before the holiday’s first candle lighting, according to an invitation obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency….
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Fast Forward Biden speaks with Netanyahu and Rivlin, assures Israeli leaders ties will remain ‘close’
(JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call Tuesday that the ties between their countries would remain strong. “The president-elect noted that he expects to work closely with the prime minister to address the many challenges confronting our countries,” Biden’s transition team said in a statement following the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s US ambassador says it would be a ‘mistake’ for Biden administration to rejoin Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s U.S. ambassador said President-elect Joe Biden should not have the U.S. reenter the Iran nuclear deal. At least the one that was signed in 2015, when Biden was vice president. “I think it would be a mistake,” Ron Dermer said Monday at a forum Monday when asked if the U.S. should…
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Fast Forward Elissa Slotkin: Internecine warfare among Democrats would be a ‘shanda’
(JTA) — Elissa Slotkin, the rare Democrat who won reelection in a district where Donald Trump got a majority, is urging her fellow Democrats: don’t make a shanda before the GOP. “There are people both inside and outside the party who are looking to split it apart,” Slotkin told Politico in a story posted Friday,…
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Fast Forward Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House. The couple’s children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital…
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