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Fast Forward Obama at G-8 Summit: We Won’t Allow Iran To Develop Nuclear Weapons
President Obama said the international community is “not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of a nuclear weapon” by Iran. Speaking at a news conference in Italy on Friday at the conclusion of the G-8 summit, Obama said that the leaders of the eight economic powers agreeed to “reevaluate Iran’s posture…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Federation Sees 11% Drop in Campaign Dollars
The country’s largest Jewish federation announced that its 2008-09 fund-raising campaign dropped 11.5 percent from the previous year. UJA-Federation of New York said it brought in $136 million, down from $153.7 million. Its announcement comes after the umbrella organization for the federation system, the United Jewish Communities, announced last week that the combined campaigns for…
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Fast Forward Michael Jackson’s Jewish Relationships Blew Hot and Cold
Michael Jackson’s life was full of contradictions, and his relationship with Jews and the Jewish community was no exception. Jackson asked to be allowed to visit the Museum of Tolerance and its Holocaust exhibit one week before its Los Angeles opening in February 1993 and was crying when he left. But two years later he…
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Fast Forward Red Cross Details Fallout From Gaza Blockade
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has left “1.5 million people in despair,” a Red Cross report said. The report, released Monday by the International Committee of the Red Cross, says the blockade of the coastal strip is preventing Gaza from rebuilding six months after Israel’s military operation in Gaza. Many homes were damaged or…
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Fast Forward Prague Conference Attempts To Ease Holocaust Property Restitution
Forty-six countries ratified a document aimed at easing the restitution process for Jewish property taken during the Holocaust. The Terezin Declaration, a nonbinding set of guiding principles aimed at faster, more open and transparent restitution of art, private and communal property taken by force or under duress during the Holocaust, was approved Monday at the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Demand for Settlement Freeze Includes East Jerusalem Neighborhoods
The U.S. demand for a settlement freeze includes Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem, according to the State Department. “We’re talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line,” said State Department spokesman Ian Kelly, in response to a question from the Jerusalem Post about the parameters of settlement stoppage the United States…
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Fast Forward Reports: Obama To Send Ambassador to Syria
President Obama will send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, according to reports. CNN reported Tuesday night that a senior Obama administration official said the U.S. would send an ambassador to Syria for the first time in four years. “It’s in our interests to have an ambassador in Syria,” a senior administration official told CNN…
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Fast Forward Obama Condemns Iran’s Actions as ‘Unjust’
President Obama condemned the “unjust actions” of the Iranian government, but said it can still engage with the United States and the international community. “There is a path available to Iran in which their sovereignty is respected, their traditions, their culture, their faith is respected, but one in which they are part of a large…
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