Lipstadt: ‘Anti-Semitism not taken seriously’
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 19, 2022
Anti-Semitism is often not taken seriously until it becomes deadly, said Deborah Lipstadt at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 12, her first talk since her Senate...
Jewish donors support Liz Cheney
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 28, 2022
Liz Cheney, the Wyoming congresswoman who is perhaps the fiercest critic of Donald Trump, isn’t too popular in her party: The House Republican caucus demoted her from...
Lipstadt confirmed as anti-Semitism monitor
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 06, 2022
The Senate in a voice vote unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who endured delays and a contentious hearing in her nomination to be...
Madeleine Albright, trailblazer with complicated Jewish identity, dies
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 31, 2022
Madeleine Albright was the quintessential late 20th-century diplomat, determined to use what tools her adopted country had to crush inhumanity when it arose.
All 25 Jewish Democrats slam Amnesty
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 17, 2022
All 25 Jewish Democrats in the House, a fractious caucus that rarely unanimously agrees on issues of Jewish interest, signed onto a statement slamming recent comments by...
On Ukraine, Israel in difficult position
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 03, 2022
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s prime minister, and Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister, have run a fairly cohesive foreign policy, despite occupying different points on...
The legendary Trude Feldman
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 17, 2022
Trude Feldman, who freelanced for media outlets mainstream, marginal and Jewish, and who interviewed multiple Israeli prime ministers and every president from Jimmy...
‘Terrified’ — Colleyville rabbi shares experience, credits security training
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 20, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has publicly described for the first time the moment he and two other hostages escaped a gunman in his synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Jan...
Colleyville — a timeline
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 15, 2022
All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott at 9:33 p.m. CST on Saturday...
Will Trump-Bibi spat affect Trump’s standing among Jewish conservatives?
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 23, 2021
Donald Trump has kept Jewish Republicans in his corner, despite a series of remarks about Jews that have raised eyebrows in conservative circles.
