Ron Kampeas JTA
A security camera hangs across the street from the Park East Synagogue in New York City. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA
October 15, 2019, 9:16 pm
How Pittsburgh changed the way American Jews think about security
October 27 attack spurs security changes
By Ron Kampeas JTA
Ro Khanna Photo by Ron Kampeas
September 25, 2019, 11:45 am
Ro Khanna navigates a careful pro-Israel line
The congressman is seen as a rising star among progressive Democrats
By Ron Kampeas JTA
September 18, 2019, 11:14 am
Trump says he’s willing to consider a mutual defense treaty with Israel
President floats the idea of previously rejected pact
By Ron Kampeas JTA
August 14, 2019, 11:35 am
Steny Hoyer has a tough job: Uniting Democrats on Israel
Majority leader believes Democrats don't have an Israel problem
By Ron Kampeas JTA
July 31, 2019, 11:53 am
Four takeaways from the House’s big vote against the Israel boycott movement
House of Representatives approved nonbinding resolution
By Ron Kampeas JTA
June 26, 2019, 10:27 am
US Holocaust Museum rejects all ‘analogies between Holocaust and other events’
Museum reacts to Ocasio-Cortez's remarks
By Ron Kampeas JTA
June 26, 2019, 10:12 am
White House unveils economic portion of Middle East peace plan
"Peace to Prosperity" plan unveiled
By Ron Kampeas JTA
Photo courtesy of Volkswagen
June 12, 2019, 1:04 pm
Volkswagen bringing ADL back to Europe
The organization has had no presence since the early 2000s
By Ron Kampeas JTA
June 12, 2019, 12:53 pm
AIPAC and J Street support effort to restore funds
Israeli-Palestinian peace dialogue funding cut by Trump Administration
By Ron Kampeas JTA
President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
April 12, 2019, 1:55 pm
It’s a Las Vegas honeymoon, of sorts, for Trump and Republican Jews
The event drew top-flight politicians who benefited from Sheldon Adelson’s political backing.
By Ron Kampeas JTA
The Knoll family pauses in front of a memorial for victims of the shooting attack that killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life building in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
November 9, 2018, 10:00 am
How the Pittsburgh massacre is driving American Jews apart
In the wake of the worst mass killing of Jews in American history, there are Jews who want to grieve and Jews who want to grieve and assign blame.
By Ron Kampeas JTA
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November 2, 2018, 10:33 am
Both parties try to paint the other side’s candidates as worse for the Jews
In their campaigns to get out the Jewish vote, and to elicit donors, the two partisan Jewish groups are seizing on the other party’s vulnerability and defending their own side.
By Ron Kampeas JTA
Members of the Squirrel Hill community in Pittsburgh come together for a student-organized candle vigil in remembrance of those who died earlier in the day during a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo by Dustin Franz/AFP/Getty Images)
October 28, 2018, 9:48 am
After synagogue massacre, interfaith Havdalah vigil unites a shattered community
Grieving and angry, thousands of Jews and non-Jews in Squirrel Hill and around nation come together to mark end of Shabbat and mourn victims of deadly shooting
By Ron Kampeas JTA
Seth Klarman in Sun Valley, Calif. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
October 12, 2018, 12:41 pm
Billionaires love Israel, hate Trump, the president who’s been closest to Israel
By Ron Kampeas JTA
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
February 14, 2018, 5:07 pm
Sen. Schumer singles out Orthodox Jews as needing to call out Trump
The Senate minority leader said they should do more to call out Trump for failing to confront hate in the United States.
By Ron Kampeas JTA
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