‘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.
Is the Biden-Bennett honeymoon over?
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 09, 2021
“Behind closed doors” is a phrase that crops up a lot in conversation with senior US and Israeli officials these days. That’s the place both sides want to settle...
Desecration of imitation Torah triggers real mourning
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 04, 2021
An imitation Torah’s demise at a George Washington University fraternity went viral online and, in person, brought hundreds of students at GWU together to mourn...
On Iran, Blinken says that ‘every’ option on the table
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — Yair Lapid got what he wanted out of his Washington visit: the word “every,” instead of “other.” During Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s...
Colin Powell dies; the former Joint Chiefs spoke Yiddish
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first black US national security advisor, the first black military chief of staff and the first black...
Harris silent on ‘genocide’
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 07, 2021
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris “strongly disagrees” with a university student who told her that Israel was carrying out “ethnic genocide,” her...
Bennett makes Time’s 100 list
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 24, 2021
NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has made Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, and his Arab-Israeli coalition partner...
Eclipsed by 9/11: Durban
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 15, 2021
DURBAN, South Africa — Some of the Jewish organizational officials flying into the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, on the last week of August, 2001 were excited....
