Jewish communal groups react to Pittsburgh sentence
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 10, 2023
A jury gave the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter a death sentence on Aug. 2, handing down the maximum punishment for the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history.
Palestinian Americans can enter at Ben Gurion
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 27, 2023
For the first time, Palestinian Americans will be able to enter and leave Israel through its main airport, part of a major policy change that will significantly ease...
Alex Soros controls his father’s wealth
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 20, 2023
When George Soros gave control of his vast charity to his son, Alexander, it was clear that the new 37-year-old chairman would follow in his father’s footsteps in many...
Jews help evangelicals talk to each other
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 20, 2023
A Jewish nonprofit, Resetting the Table, which has spent nearly a decade teaching Jewish groups to have more productive and meaningful conversations about Israel, is...
Shul shooter ‘eligible for death penalty’
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 20, 2023
Jurors in the trial of the gunman who killed 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue took less than two hours to find him eligible for the death penalty, setting...
Pittsburgh trial: Gunman spurred by white supremacy
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 13, 2023
The gunman who murdered 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue did not suffer from delusions but was spurred by white supremacist radicalization, a forensic...
Israeli-Russian academic held by Shiites in Iraq
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 13, 2023
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an expert on refugees and a Middle East analyst who has Russian and Israeli citizenship, has been held for months by a Shiite militia in Iraq,...
In Pittsburgh trial, defense cites brain abnormalities
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 06, 2023
Defense lawyers for the man convicted of murdering 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue began detailing their argument that he should not be sentenced to...
Israel pledges to combat violence by Jews
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 29, 2023
Israel’s security agencies said they would use “all the means that are at our disposal” to combat violence by Jewish residents of the West Bank in the wake of...
Sentencing stage in Tree of Life trial
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 29, 2023
As the gunman in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting stood trial, the defense made clear that they believed their client had committed the attack, and they declined to...
