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Fast Forward Jewish Boxer Retains Championship Belt
Carolina Raquel Duer successfully defended her World Boxing Organization’s super flyweight champion title. Making the fifth defense of her title, Duer, 33, of Buenos Aires, defeated European champion Corina Carlescu with a technical knockout in the fifth round. Duer knocked down her Romanian opponent with a left cross in the fourth round. The referee stopped…
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Fast Forward Barney Frank Marries Longtime Partner
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) married his longtime partner Jim Ready. Frank and Ready were married Saturday evening in a ceremony officiated by the governor of Massachusetts. Frank, 72, who will retire from Congress at the end of the current term after 16 terms in the House of Representatives, came out as gay in 1987,…
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Fast Forward New Committee Will Write Israel Draft Law
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz have agreed on the establishment of a team to write a law on equality in military and national service. The team was announced Sunday as the Likud Party unanimously approved the recommendations of the Plesner committee, which was charged with formulating a new law on…
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Fast Forward Bibi Wants Duelling Draft-Law Committees
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday that he has ordered the formulation of two teams to examine universal draft alternatives. One team will be headed by Prime Minister’s Office representatives and the other by ones from Kadima, Ynet reported. Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz, however, has rejected Netanyahu’s plan to form two new committees. Netanyahu had…
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Fast Forward Clinton Holds ‘Productive’ Talks With Abbas
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called her talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas productive. Clinton, who met with Abbas Friday, said she hopes to build momentum for another peace push when she visits Israel in 10 days, the Associated Press reported. She said the two discussed how to build on a recent letter exchange…
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Fast Forward U.N. Experts Will Probe West Bank Settlements
The United Nations’ top human rights body has appointed three independent experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how Israel’s West Bank settlements affect Palestinians. The president of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Uruguay Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, on Friday named three women to the panel, The Associated Press reported. Dupuy Lasserre said their mission…
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Fast Forward European Jews Hope To Stop Anti-Semitic ‘Quake’
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is demanding a more proactive response to the recent escalation in anti-Semitic attacks around Europe, which its leader called “smaller tremors before a massive earthquake.” On Thursday, a French Jewish teenager, who attends the Toulouse school where Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah shot dead three children and a teacher in March,…
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Fast Forward European Far-Right Groups Meet in Milan
Milan’s Jewish community has condemned a meeting of European extreme right-wing movements due to be held at a Milan hotel Friday and Saturday. In a statement, the Milan Jewish community expressed “alarm” at the meeting, which was to include representatives of Hungary’s Jobbik party, the French Front National, and Britain’s British National Party, among others….
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