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David Friedman is new ambassador
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 30, 2017
WASHINGTON — The US Senate confirmed David Friedman, a confidante of President Donald Trump who outraged some Jewish groups with his broadsides against liberal Jews,...
Bill would impose new Iran sanctions
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 30, 2017
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan slate of senators introduced new sanctions targeting Iran for its missile testing and destabilizing actions days ahead of AIPAC’s national...
Arrest made in JCC bomb threats
JTAMar 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the arrest in Israel of a teenager allegedly responsible for more than 100 bomb threats against US Jewish...
AIPAC aspires to be non-partisan
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — Maintaining Iran sanctions, crushing BDS and ensuring aid to Israel are high on the agenda, of course. But the overarching message at this year’s...
JCC bomb threats: One arrest made
JTAMar 09, 2017
NEW YORK — A St. Louis man has been charged for making at least eight bomb threats against Jewish community centers and the ADL. Juan Thompson, 31, made some of...
Jewish Democrats deem Keith Ellison worrisome
JNSMar 02, 2017
WASHINGTON — The appointment of US Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) as deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has left some Jewish Democrats worried...
Jewish Republicans hot on Pence
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 02, 2017
LAS VEGAS — Republican Jews have President Donald Trump to thank for their party’s renewed dominance of Washington politics. So what do they think of him? Marlyn...
Trump denounces anti-Semitism after more bomb threats, cemetery vandalism
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump denounced anti-Semitism a day after bomb threats to at least 10 Jewish community centers across the country and a large-scale...
Friedman: ‘No excuse’ for ‘kapo’
JTAFeb 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — David Friedman at the launch of US Senate hearings to confirm him as ambassador to Israel said there was “no excuse” for his past rhetoric targeting...
Gorsuch under the Jewish microscope
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — On June 27, 2013, the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, handed down a decision that would make history a year later when...
