Civilian, not military, rule in West Bank
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 09, 2023
Last month, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was granted authority over the civilian life of Israeli residents, and some Palestinians, in the West Bank.
Pilots delay training in judicial protest
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 09, 2023
Protests against the judicial reforms favored by the Netanyahu government extended to areas of Israel’s establishment where political protest was once unthinkable,...
Back and forth violence in Israel; American murdered
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 02, 2023
A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed two Israeli brothers, aged 22 and 20, driving through a West Bank town on Feb. 26. A day later an American citizen in his 20s...
Did IFCJ pay for critique of salaries to be removed?
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 02, 2023
Did someone associated with the late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein’s nonprofit pay a company to remove criticism of his and his daughter’s salaries from the internet?
Research shows: Demolitions of terrorists’ homes deter terror
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 23, 2023
Less than an hour after a terror attack in Jerusalem killed three people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a succinct message: Destroy the...
Nazi hunter now on Russia’s case
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 16, 2023
During the 35 years Eli Rosenbaum spent hunting Nazis, he always looked up to his forebears in the profession. But it was only recently, as he ventured into Ukraine to...
Mazi Melesa Pilip — a replacement for Santos?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 26, 2023
On Jan. 13, as George Santos completed his second week in Congress, Mazi Melesa Pilip was contemplating the relief Shabbat would bring — and also the betrayal she felt...
330 US rabbis will ban extremist elements of Netanyahu’s government
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 29, 2022
More than 330 American rabbis are pledging to block members of the Religious Zionist bloc in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from speaking at their synagogues and...
Biden cites Chanukah with Zelensky
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 29, 2022
During a closely-watched press conference with Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymr Zelensky, President Joe Biden brought up the Chanukah story, comparing Ukraine’s...
Is congressman Jewish or Catholic?
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 22, 2022
On Monday morning, The New York Times published an article alleging that much of what George Santos, 34, has said about his education, his wealth, his business...
