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Ron Kampeas

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

A pro-Israel rally near Walnut Creek's library in May 2021. (Photo/PB)
Posted inU.S.

More American Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and big organizations are struggling to fight the trend

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 16, 2021
Activists protest Israel’s military actions against Palestinians outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. on May 18, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Survey: A quarter of US Jews agree that Israel ‘is an apartheid state’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 13, 2021
Shlomo Noginsky, a rabbi who was stabbed in Boston, speaks to a rally against antisemitism at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 11, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inNews

On Capitol Hill, rally-goers agree that antisemitism is un-American. But when Israel is involved, it gets complicated.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 12, 2021
The collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida (Photo/JTA-Giorgio Viera-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Surfside collapse searchers tell families there are no survivors

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 8, 2021
A social hall under construction in The Shul, a synagogue in Surfside, Florida, is piled high with donations for newly homeless families less than 18 hours after a nearby building collapsed, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inFirst Person

‘A veritable sigh of relief’: How the global Jewish community is coming together in Surfside

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 30, 2021
Nachman Shai (left) speaks to Sen. Rick Scott (second from right) at the Grand Beach Hotel in Surfside, Florida, June 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inU.S.

New Israeli Diaspora minister travels to comfort Jews in Surfside — and looks to mend U.S. ties

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 29, 2021
Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregants among the missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Photo/JTA-Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

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

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 28, 2021
A kippah-clad man holds a sign reading "Jews for Black Lives" at a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Valerie Macon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

This organization was supposed to unite Jews. A debate over Black Lives Matter may fuel its demise.

by Ron Kampeas, Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 24, 2021
The current Supreme Court, clockwise from top left: Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Elana Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonya Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Posted inNews

A Supreme Court decision allowing a Catholic foster agency to discriminate splits Jewish groups

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 18, 2021June 18, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks to the Christian conservative group Voices United for Israel in Washington, Jan. 19, 1998. He is flanked by the late Eliyahu Ben Elissar (left) then Israel's ambassador to the U.S., and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. (Photo/JTA-William Philpott-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Evangelical supporters of Israel alarmed as their close ally Netanyahu is ousted from power

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 10, 2021

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