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Fast Forward Salita Promotes His Own Title Fight
Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita is promoting his own world championship bout. Salita will fight for the International Boxing Association welterweight title against ?Mighty? Mike Anchondo on Dec. 16 at Roseland Ballroom in New York?s Times Square. The card, which is being put on by Salita Promotions in assocation with Universal Boxing, will include two…
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Fast Forward Cantor: Take Israel Out of Foreign Aid Budget
A Republican Congress would seek to remove funding for Israel from the foreign operations budget, a GOP leader said. U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip and the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, told JTA that a GOP-led House would seek to defund nations that do not share U.S. interests, even if…
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Fast Forward US Notified Congress of Plans To Sell Arms to Saudi Arabia
The U.S. Defense Department has notified Congress that it is planning to sell $60 billion in advanced military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Israel does not object to the sale, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, Alexander Vershbow, told reporters during a briefing Wednesday in Washington. Congress has 30 days to review the…
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Fast Forward Rabin Remembered Upon Anniversary of His Death
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin “must not be forgiven or forgotten,” Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a candlelighting ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the tragedy. On Tuesday afternoon, on the eve of the Hebrew date of the anniversary of the prime minister’s death, Peres spoke about the man with whom he was awarded…
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Fast Forward Would-Be Synagogue Bombers Are Convicted
Four men caught in an FBI sting operation were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues in New York City. The men, arrested in May 2009, were convicted Monday by a jury in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan of planting bombs at the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple, both in the Bronx,…
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News Bibi: Redraft Loyalty Oath To Include Jews
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s justice minister to redraft the loyalty oath amendment to include Jews. Netanyahu on Monday said the new amendment to the Citizenship Act, which requires a pledge of allegiance by non-Jews to the Jewish and democratic state of Israel, should include Jews seeking Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return….
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Fast Forward Database of Nazi-Looted Art Now Online
A searchable database of more than 20,000 Nazi-looted art objects has gone online. At least half of the objects, searchable by item, artist and owner, have not been restituted to their original owners, according to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The database is a project of the Claims Conference with technical support…
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Fast Forward Israel Resumes Attempts To Negotiate Release of Shalit
Negotiations to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas have resumed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu on Sunday said that Israel has “renewed contact with the German mediator” in order to free Shalit, who is being held in the Gaza Strip. Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid in June 2006. Shalit’s grandfather,…
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