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Ron Kampeas

Ron Kampeas is the D.C. bureau chief at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

People drive past an anti-Israel billboard featuring the shape of a traditional Yemeni dagger made of map pins and sentences reading "All targets are within reach" in Hebrew and "All targets are available, now Yemeni missiles" in Persian, in Tehran's Palestine square on May 5, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

Israel strikes Iran: How we got here — and what happens next

by Ron Kampeas June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
A portrait of the writer by sketch artist Emily Goff. (©Emily N Goff, 2023, all rights reserved.)
Posted inOpinion

The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

by Ron Kampeas December 27, 2024December 27, 2024
a synagogue building seen at dusk
Posted inU.S.

Tree of Life murderer is one of 3 death row inmates exempted from Biden’s commutation order

by Ron Kampeas December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
Posted inIsrael

Netanyahu visits IDF soldiers in Syria as rebel leaders call for Israelis to exit

by Ron Kampeas December 17, 2024December 17, 2024
Yarden Gonen, whose sister Romi Gonen remains captive in Gaza, speaks at a rally in Central Park, New York, Dec. 15, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters)
Posted inNews

A hostage deal by Hanukkah? Israel, U.S. and Hamas indicate unusual optimism

by Ron Kampeas December 16, 2024December 16, 2024
A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia (Shoot from Within)
Posted inU.S.

Biden signs law that could lead to US Jewish history museum joining the Smithsonian

by Ron Kampeas December 12, 2024December 12, 2024
Left to Right: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Laura Friedman, California Sen. Adam Schiff, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, Virginia Rep. Eugene Vindman and Ohio Rep. Max Miller. (Collage by Grace Yagel/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

What’s ahead for the 34 Jewish members of the next Congress

by Ron Kampeas December 12, 2024December 12, 2024
A bald man in an Israeli army uniform talks to reporters
Posted inPolitics

House elects Brian Mast, U.S. army veteran who assisted Israeli soldiers as a civilian volunteer, to lead Foreign Affairs Committee

by Ron Kampeas December 11, 2024December 11, 2024
A man in a suit and glasses poses for a portrait with a neutral expression on his face
Posted inPolitics

Massad Boulos, Trump’s new Middle East adviser, touts roadmap to Palestinian state

by Ron Kampeas December 10, 2024December 10, 2024
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff walks toward the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol for the trial of President Donald Trump, Feb. 5, 2020. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Adam Schiff is sworn into Senate on edition of Maimonides’ Jewish legal code printed in 1490

by Ron Kampeas December 9, 2024December 9, 2024

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