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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Join ’12 Get Out Vote Drive
A collection of national Jewish organizations has joined a get-out-the-vote campaign for the 2012 election. The Get Out the Vote 2012 campaign is a nonpartisan guide to assist Jewish community organizations and individuals with advice on promoting voter registration drives and to educate voters about the election. The list of groups participating includes the Union…
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Fast Forward Controversial Ad Campaign Returns on Web
An Israeli ad aimed at expatriates living in the U.S. that had come in for criticism by the American Jewish community has reappeared online and in an Israeli magazine. The ad, calling on Israelis living in the United States to return to Israel, appeared in Atmosphera, the magazine of El Al Airlines. The ad was…
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Fast Forward Specialty Summer Camps Launched With Grants
The Foundation for Jewish Camp’s new grant cycle will fund the creation of four new specialty Jewish overnight camps. The Specialty Camps Incubator II funding cycle represents the second stage of an $8.6 million grant jointly funded by the Jim Joseph and Avi Chai foundations. The new camps are intended to engage the 90 percent…
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Fast Forward Italian Police Arrest Synagogue Bomb Suspect
Police in northern Italy have arrested a young North African man suspected of planning terrorist attacks on the Milan synagogue and other targets. The 20-year-old man, who has lived in Italy since childhood, was arrested early Thursday in the province of Brescia, according to Italian news reports. The reports said investigators found a document on…
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Fast Forward Hoenlein Says U.S. Is Sending Mixed Messages on Iran
The chief executive of the top U.S. Jewish foreign policy umbrella group says the Obama administration is sending mixed messages on Iran. “You get differing messages from different people,” said Malcom Hoenlein, executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in response to a question from Shalom TV, an on-demand cable…
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Fast Forward Obama: Window for Iran Diplomacy Is ‘Shinking’
The window for Iran to resolve its differences with the West through diplomacy is shrinking, President Obama said. “They should understand that because the international community has applied so many sanctions, because we have employed so many of the options that are available to us to persuade Iran to take a different course, that the…
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Fast Forward Methodist Pension Fund Rejects Israel Divestment
The Methodist Pension Board rejected a proposal to divest from companies that supply products to Israel’s military. The United Methodist General Board of Pension and Health Benefits unanimously approved a resolution earlier this month that would allow the board to continue to invest in Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard. Petitioners had called for divestment from…
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Fast Forward Israel Fails To Rein In Jewish Extremists: Report
Israel is not doing enough to stop the large increase in attacks on Palestinians by Jewish extremists, according to an internal European Union report. The report by the 22 heads of mission of EU countries’ ambassadors in Ramallah said there were 411 assaults in 2011, compared to 266 in 2010 and 132 in 2009, according…
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