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Fast Forward Italian Wine With Nazi Logo Spurs Boycott Call
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on distributors to boycott Lunardelli, an Italian wine company that sells wine labeled with Nazi and fascist slogans and and photos of the movements’ leaders. “Enough is enough,” Rabbis Marvin Hier, founder and dean, and Abraham Cooper, associate dean, of the Wiesenthal Center said in a statement released on…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ministers To Decide Which Palestinian Prisoners To Release First
A committee of Israeli government ministers is meeting to decide which Palestinian prisoners will be freed in the first round of peace talks. The first 26 prisoners, out of a list of 104, are set to be freed this week, a day before negotiations resume Wednesday in Jerusalem. Sunday’s meeting will take place without Prime…
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Fast Forward U.S. Air Force Chief Makes Secret Visit to Israel
Gen. Mark Welsh, the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, completed a secret visit to Israel. Welsh was in Israel Aug. 4 to Aug. 8 as the guest of the Commander of the Israel Air Force, Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel. During his visit, Welsh met with senior officers and defense personnel, including Chief of…
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Fast Forward Elisabeth Maxwell, Widow of Media Baron, Dies at 92
Elisabeth Maxwell, an expert on the Holocaust and the widow of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has died at the age of 92. Maxwell, who was not Jewish, devoted her adult life to Holocaust education and Jewish-Christian relations. The New York Times reported that she died Wednesday in Dordogne, France, quoting her daughter, Ghislaine….
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Fast Forward Is Nazi Treblinka Letter on Auction Block a Fake?
An auction house in Britain is investigating the authenticity of a letter billed as sent by a Nazi official and detailing Jewish transports during the Holocaust. The letter details the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp and is to be auctioned off on August 21 by Mullock’s, an auctioneer in the…
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Fast Forward Germany Cannot Be Neutral on Israel, Angela Merkel Says
Germany will never be neutral when it comes to Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel told a Jewish newspaper. “The heinous crime committed by Germany against the Jews, the betrayal of all civilized values that was the Shoah, will always be present and we can shape the future of the resulting special relationship between Germany and Israel…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Get Briefing From John Kerry and Susan Rice on Mideast Peace
Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice briefed Jewish leaders on resumed Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The meeting Thursday evening in the White House lasted 90 minutes, participants said, and was characterized mostly by Kerry’s enthusiasm for the resumed talks, and the serious commitment he said saw from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Boxer Dmitriy Salita Plans To Move to Israel After Career
Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita said he will make aliyah at the end of his professional career. On a visit to Argentina as part of fundraising activities for the network of Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish schools Oholey Jinuj, the Ukraine-born pugilist spoke with JTA about his future. “I will make Aliyah with my family,” Salita told JTA…
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