Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Coalition PAC endorses senator blocking advancement of Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition’s affiliated political action committee is endorsing the reelection campaign of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who has so far blocked the Senate from confirming Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden’s pick to be antisemitism monitor. Lipstadt, an Emory University professor, is one of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars. A broad…
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Fast Forward In appeal to Israel, Zelenskyy invokes the final solution: ‘You cannot mediate between good and evil’
(JTA) — In a searing 12-minute speech addressing the “people of Israel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy likened the “final solution” the Nazis sought to impose on the Jews to Russia’s ambitions for Ukraine. Zelensky also appealed, yet again, for military assistance and criticized the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for trying to maintain relations…
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Fast Forward AIPAC hates the Iran deal, but it’s backing 27 Democrats who supported the agreement in 2015
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Killing the Iran nuclear deal has been one of the signature issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the country’s largest pro-Israel lobby, for almost a decade. In 2015, as the deal signed by the United States, Iran and five other global powers gained momentum, AIPAC launched a massive…
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Fast Forward Sam Massell, Jewish Atlanta mayor who shepherded in an era of Black-led politics, dies at 94
(JTA) — Sam Massell was Atlanta’s first Jewish mayor, serving from 1970-1974. Also, he was the city’s last white mayor. But he was remembered as more than a single-term bookend: Massell was the first mayor to prove that the city’s Blacks had clout enough to elevate their chosen candidate to office, and he embedded Black…
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Fast Forward Longtime Jewish Maryland Democratic leader resigns after questioning viability of Black candidates
(JTA) — Barbara Goldberg Goldman, a longtime lay leader in Democratic Party and Jewish circles, resigned as deputy treasurer of the Maryland Democratic Party after questioning the viability of Black candidates for governor. Goldberg Goldman apologized for an email she sent in December, revealed over the weekend by Axios. “Consider this: Three African-American males have…
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Fast Forward Israel is setting up a $6.4M field hospital in Ukraine, named after Golda Meir
(JTA) — Israel announced plans to set up a field hospital in western Ukraine as the Russian war against the country shows no sign of abating. Israeli leaders on Monday approved NIS 21 million, or $6.4 million, to build the hospital, according to an announcement from the office of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. It will…
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Fast Forward An Idaho GOP official tried to install an antisemite in Democratic leadership — as a distraction
(JTA) — Dave Reilly is a longtime far-right activist with an extensive record of antisemitic, racist and misogynistic statements. So it would be hard to imagine him as a Democratic Party leader. But that’s exactly what a Republican Party leader in Western Idaho tried to make happen in a scheme first reported Thursday by the…
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Fast Forward Amnesty International official is ‘opposed’ to Israel as a Jewish state
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Amnesty International official said that the organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state. “We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien,…
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