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All content by Ron Kampeas
A view of the U.N. General Assembly Hall. (Patrick Gruban/Wikimedia Commons)

More than 30 countries stay away from U.N. anniversary marking Durban conference

Ron Kampeas
Published September 23, 2021

Virginia Republican apologizes, but not for antisemitism, after mocking Jewish House speaker’s nose

Ron Kampeas
Published September 21, 2021
Sheila Bromberg shares a laugh with Ringo Starr on a BBC talk show in May 2011. (YouTube/Screenshot)

Sheila Bromberg, Jewish harpist who was first woman to play on a Beatles album, dies at 92

Ron Kampeas
Published September 21, 2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken marks the anniversary of the Abraham Accords with, clockwise, diplomats from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain, on Sept. 17, 2021. (Screenshot)

On Abraham Accords anniversary, there is accord on calling it ‘Abraham’

Ron Kampeas
Published September 20, 2021

Middle school goes virtual because of COVID outbreak at the bar mitzvah of Chris Christie’s nephew

Ron Kampeas
Published September 20, 2021

Muslims and Jews join in Congress to press US government for kosher and halal food relief

Ron Kampeas
Published September 15, 2021

Naftali Bennett makes the Time 100 list. It’s because of ‘courage,’ his Arab-Israeli coalition partner writes.

Ron Kampeas
Published September 15, 2021
Damon Joseph told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to carry out a mass killing attack on a Toledo Jewish target. (U.S. Department of Justice)

Ohio man sentenced to 20 years for planned attack on Toledo synagogue

Ron Kampeas
Published September 14, 2021
President Joe Biden meets Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the White House, Aug. 27, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/Israel Government Press Office)

Naftali Bennett says the US and Israel have set up joint team on containing Iran

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Published September 3, 2021

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: Israel will neither annex territory nor establish a Palestinian state on my watch

Ron Kampeas
Published August 24, 2021

GOP senators want Trump era mandates on settlement products to become law

Ron Kampeas
Published July 30, 2021

Jared Kushner to leave politics to set up investment business with Israel focus, report claims

Ron Kampeas
Published July 29, 2021
More U.S. Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and organizations are struggling to fight the trend

More U.S. Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and organizations are struggling to fight the trend

RON KAMPEAS
Published July 15, 2021
Do you know this Jew? He was once an adorable and very smart child star.

Do you know this Jew? He was once an adorable and very smart child star.

RON KAMPEAS, JTA
Published July 9, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2021. (Screenshot/WTXL/Facebook)

Marjorie Taylor Greene invokes ‘medical brown shirts’ in decrying vaccination outreach

Ron Kampeas
Published July 7, 2021

‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braces for bad news

RON KAMPEAS
Published June 26, 2021

Donald Trump again says American Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough’ and more should have voted for him

Ron Kampeas
Published June 18, 2021

Police chief in Michigan apologizes for liking pro-Israel Facebook post

Ron Kampeas
Published May 30, 2021

Diverse group of Israeli parties agree to form coalition and oust Netanyahu

RON KAMPEAS
Published May 30, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on comparing mask mandates to Holocaust

Ron Kampeas
Published May 24, 2021

President Biden: Attacks on Jewish community ‘must stop’

Ron Kampeas
Published May 24, 2021

With violence escalating in Israel, who’s in charge? The answer is not reassuring.

RON KAMPEAS
Published May 11, 2021

Overland Park killer dies the day a book memorializing his victims is published

Ron Kampeas
Published May 4, 2021

Biden’s Jewish Heritage Month message nods to Schumer and Emhoff for setting precedents

Ron Kampeas
Published May 2, 2021

Israel starts burying victims of Meron disaster

Ron Kampeas
Published May 2, 2021

Pope Francis mourns Meron victims

Ron Kampeas
Published May 2, 2021
A volunteer with the ZAKA response group walks through the debris left in the aftermath of the stampede in Meron, Israel, April 30, 2021. (ZAKA/Aharon Baruch Leibowitz)

As Israel buries Mount Meron victims, attention turns to what allowed deadly stampede to occur

RON KAMPEAS
Published April 30, 2021

Biden offers assistance to Israel in aftermath of Lag b’Omer tragedy

Ron Kampeas
Published April 30, 2021

Biden: white supremacists are the ‘most lethal terrorist threat’

RON KAMPEAS
Published April 28, 2021

Human Rights Watch says Israel has crossed ‘apartheid’ threshold

RON KAMPEAS
Published April 28, 2021
The Virginia Republican Party State Central Committee votes on a number of measures at a virtual meeting, including a vote on whether to allow a religious exemption for Saturday convention voting, April 22, 2021. (Facebook)

Virginia Republicans reverse decision, will accommodate voting for Shabbat observers

Ron Kampeas
Published April 26, 2021

Jewish groups welcomed Biden’s designation of an Armenian genocide. It wasn’t always so.

Ron Kampeas
Published April 26, 2021
Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City

Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City

Ron Kampeas
Published April 26, 2021
In a video sent to media, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan explains that he told the Security Council that Israel would not abide by any nuclear deal with Iran that did not end its enrichment altogether, April 22, 2021. (Screenshot)

Israeli ambassador: Israel will not abide by any Iran nuclear deal short of an end to enrichment

Ron Kampeas
Published April 23, 2021

75% of House members back no conditions on aid to Israel

Ron Kampeas
Published April 22, 2021

The pro-Israel Iran dilemma: How to influence a policy that Biden has yet to unveil

Ron Kampeas
Published April 22, 2021

In Congress, bipartisan support grows for bills backing expanded Israeli-Arab ties

Ron Kampeas
Published April 21, 2021
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses J Street in a video broadcast at its national conference on April 18, 2021. (YouTube)

At J Street conference, Mahmoud Abbas says he’s ready to ‘remove obstacles’ to relations with US

RON KAMPEAS
Published April 20, 2021
Denver City Hall, Denver, Co. (Israeli-American Council)

These landmarks across the US lit up blue and white for Israel’s Independence Day

Ron Kampeas
Published April 15, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Brussels, April 14, 2021.

Antony Blinken expects other countries to sign onto Abraham Accords this year

Ron Kampeas
Published April 15, 2021
Rep. Betty McCollum, seen in July 2020, is leading another attempt to restrict areas where Israel may spend U.S. funds. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

J Street and Americans for Peace Now back bill that restricts Israeli spending of US aid

Ron Kampeas
Published April 14, 2021

When a colleague compared a mental health bill to the Holocaust, she interrupted him. Meet Jewish Maryland lawmaker Shane Pendergrass.

Ron Kampeas
Published April 13, 2021

Iran says it will enrich uranium closer to weaponization levels

Ron Kampeas
Published April 13, 2021
UNRWA

Biden administration says it has UNRWA’s commitment to ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism

Ron Kampeas
Published April 12, 2021
A boy sits near sacks of flour distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East at a Gaza refugee camp, Jan. 15, 2018. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 

Biden’s new slate of aid to Palestinians comes under intense scrutiny

Ron Kampeas
Published April 9, 2021

Antony Blinken in Holocaust Day speech recalls past State Department obstruction of bids to save Jews

Ron Kampeas
Published April 9, 2021

Jewish and Arab-American groups join in backing bill that would streamline hate crimes reporting

Ron Kampeas
Published April 9, 2021

GOP lawmaker marks Holocaust remembrance day by likening child mental health bill to Nazi laws

Ron Kampeas
Published April 8, 2021

March of the Living gives Fauci award for COVID work

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2021
GAZA CITY, GAZA - JANUARY 15: A boy sits near the sacks of flours during a food aid distribution by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on January 15, 2018. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Biden administration resumes payments to UNRWA; Israel objects

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2021
Nancy Kaufman

These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor

Ron Kampeas
Published April 7, 2021
Middle East School

Elite US military language school drops Hebrew

Ron Kampeas
Published April 6, 2021

Amy Acton, the Ohio pandemic official who faced an anti-Semitic backlash, won’t run for Senate

Ron Kampeas
Published April 6, 2021

Alcee Hastings, Black congressman who led advocacy on Jewish issues, dies at 84

Ron Kampeas
Published April 6, 2021

The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs

Ron Kampeas
Published April 6, 2021
Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor, at the court in The Hague, Netherlands, July 8, 2019. (Eva Plevier/AFP via Getty Images

Biden removes Trump era sanctions on the International Criminal Court

Ron Kampeas
Published April 2, 2021

US and Iran to join talks aimed at rejoining nuclear deal

Ron Kampeas
Published April 2, 2021
Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz and father allege $25M extortion plot that included freedom for Robert Levinson, missing Jewish FBI agent

Ron Kampeas
Published April 1, 2021

US watchdog: Aid agency did not properly vet Palestinian recipients for terror ties

Ron Kampeas
Published March 31, 2021
Joel Greenberg

Who is Joel Greenberg? Meet the Jewish Florida politician at the center of the Matt Gaetz scandal

Ron Kampeas
Published March 31, 2021

Rabbi Michael Cook, who helped Jews navigate the New Testament, dies at 79

Ron Kampeas
Published March 30, 2021
Settler Protest

State Department revives use of ‘occupied,’ with caveats

Ron Kampeas
Published March 30, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff participate in a virtual White House seder, March 25, 2021. (Screen shot)

Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

Biden administration formally resumes assistance to the Palestinians

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

Bipartisan slate of senators call on Biden to maintain tough Iran posture

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

Jonathan Pollard says Jews ‘will always have dual loyalty’ and would counsel young Jews to consider spying for Israel

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 17: Jessica Walter arrives for the premiere of Netflix's "Arrested Development" Season 5 at Netflix FYSee Theater on May 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/WireImage)

Jessica Walter, Jewish actress known for roles in ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer,’ dies at 80

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

New anti-Semitism definition excludes backing Israel boycotts

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

Steven Spielberg to donate his Genesis Prize winnings to racial justice organizations

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

In a first, Senate confirms a transgender nominee, Rachel Levine, to be deputy health secretary

Ron Kampeas
Published March 25, 2021

GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to Schumer: The Sabbath is on Sunday

Ron Kampeas
Published March 24, 2021

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

Ron Kampeas
Published March 24, 2021

The average age of volunteers at this food pantry was 89. Then the pandemic arrived.

Ron Kampeas
Published March 22, 2021
Sasha Kopp, who trains Jewish early childhood teachers, took up dog walking in Manhattan to fill time during the pandemic. Here she poses at Carl Schurz Park in New York City on July 16, 2020. (Carl Vitullo)

When school turned upside down, this St. Louis native helped Jewish educators learn to teach outdoors

Ron Kampeas
Published March 22, 2021
Sofi Hersher and Nate Andorsky pose during a visit to introduce Andorsky to Hersher's grandmother, with COVID precautions in place, in Syracuse, New York, Sept. 21, 2020. (DeAjah DeLee)

For many people, life slowed down once COVID-19 hit. Hers sped up.

Ron Kampeas
Published March 22, 2021
Israeli absorption minister Pnina Tamano-Shata poses in an undated photo. (Natan Weil/Government Press Office) 

Israel’s first Black Cabinet member knows the aliyah struggle. It’s why she kept immigration open during COVID.

Ron Kampeas
Published March 21, 2021
Mazon Seder

Record 33 lawmakers from both parties join Mazon’s hunger Seder

Ron Kampeas
Published March 19, 2021

Top retired Israeli security officials back Colin Kahl, a Biden nominee on ice for his Israel positions

Ron Kampeas
Published March 18, 2021
Atlanta Crime Scene

After Atlanta massacre, Jewish groups rally on behalf of Asian Americans

Ron Kampeas
Published March 17, 2021
Doug Emhoff

Doug Emhoff wanted to tout the benefits of the stimulus package for small businesses. He chose a Jewish bagel joint.

Ron Kampeas
Published March 17, 2021

Trump showed off photos of naked women at a shiva, report says

Ron Kampeas
Published March 12, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene slurs David Cicilline as ‘Mussolini.’ His response: ‘I’m an Italian and a Jew.’

Ron Kampeas
Published March 11, 2021
New Israel Fund

Federal court dismisses $110 million tax suit against New Israel Fund

Ron Kampeas
Published March 11, 2021

No AIPAC conference? No problem. We’re meeting for coffee on Zoom.

Ron Kampeas
Published March 11, 2021

Biden civil rights nominee, under fire from the right, gets some Jewish backing

Ron Kampeas
Published March 8, 2021
Tapper prays on CNN with Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, to mark the 500,000th COVID death in America, Feb, 22, 2021. (CNN)

For Jake Tapper, being the rabbi of TV news comes easy

Ron Kampeas
Published March 4, 2021

Rep. Lee Zeldin considering run for New York governor

Ron Kampeas
Published March 3, 2021

PLO says Hamas is on board with a 2-state outcome and ‘peaceful’ resistance

Ron Kampeas
Published March 2, 2021

Reps. Grace Meng and Ted Lieu join anti-Semitism task force leadership, replacing 2 Jewish members

Ron Kampeas
Published March 1, 2021
Max Miller

Jewish Trump aide considering challenge to Ohio Republican who voted for impeachment

Ron Kampeas
Published February 23, 2021

Merrick Garland in AG confirmation hearing: ‘Senator, I’m a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is’

RON KAMPEAS
Published February 23, 2021

Merrick Garland tears up describing why he wants to serve as attorney general: The protection US gave his family

Ron Kampeas
Published February 22, 2021

Joe and Bibi talked, but what does it all mean? Biden and Israel, the scorecard.

Ron Kampeas
Published February 22, 2021

Suspected oil spill may be worst in Israel’s history

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021

Shlomo Hillel, who spearheaded mass aliya of Iraqi Jews, dies at 97

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021

Netanyahu: Equatorial Guinea plans to move embassy to Jerusalem

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021
Michael Che makes a joke about Israel's vaccine rollout on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 20, 2021. (YouTube)  

The American Jewish Committee wants ‘Saturday Night Live’ to apologize for vaccine joke

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021

Amazon delivery change driving out Orthodox sellers

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021

Report: Israeli payment for Russian vaccines was part of exchange deal with Syria

Ron Kampeas
Published February 21, 2021
NYTVIRUS - Ivanka Trump listens to President Donald Trump as he makes remarks during a Small Business Relief Update, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. (Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Ivanka Trump won’t run for Florida Senate seat in 2022

Ron Kampeas
Published February 18, 2021
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