By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The first public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry began this week with quite a splash.
A bunch of Jewish actors are at play in this drama, and we’ve covered some before:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is caught in the middle of it...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tuesday’s off-year elections brought some surprising news.
Here are four key takeaways:
Turning Blue Blues
It wasn’t a good night for the GOP.
Virginia’s legislature flipped to Democratic. It looks like Kentucky elected a Democrat governor, Andy Beshear pushing out the Trumpian incumbent, Matt Bevin....
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By RON KAMPEAS
Taking a turn on J Street J Street convened its eighth annual conference this week, its 11th year of existence. The gathering attracted 4,000 activists and marked a major turning point in how Democrats treat Israel: Withholding aid to pressure the Jewish state to comply with policy...
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By RON KAMPEAS
Leveraging Israel Left-wing Jewish activists have been ambushing Democratic presidential candidates at campaign events for months, asking them to outright condemn Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. One of their tactics is to ask the candidates whether they would consider withholding aid from Israel to get it...
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By RON KAMPEAS
COLUMBUS (JTA) — The Democrats are holding their debates in states that voted red in 2016, but which they hope to take from the Republicans next year.
It was Florida in June, Michigan in July, Texas (yes, Texas) in September and this month in Ohio, in suburban...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Oren writes of being in a reverie on Sept. 30, 2013, his last day as Israel’s ambassador to Washington, when he heard President Barack Obama tell his boss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “If war comes, we’re with you, because that’s what the American...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump thinks Adam Schiff should be tried for treason.
Why is difficult to discern. Jeff Mason of Reuters tried to extract an explanation during a White House news conference Wednesday with Trump and the president of Finland.
“Do you consider anyone who...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The news that gobbled up our attention this week was obviously impeachment, For anybody that possibly missed it, an intelligence community whistleblower accused President Donald Trump of extorting help from Ukraine to smear his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Are there Jewish...
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