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…
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,…
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…
An agreement to probe the persecution of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany was signed last week by the bar associations of Tel Aviv and Berlin. The two groups resolved to research, document, exchange information and organize joint conferences on the subject, and to cooperate on human rights issues. “We want to remember the past and…
Thousands of protesters marched in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors share the burden of military and civilian service. Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz and his predecessor Tzipi Livni also attended the rally, as did “Yesh Atid” chairman Yair Lapid. According to Police estimates 20,000 persons arrived at the Museum Plaza….
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
A Jewish heritage committee in Oxford marked an medieval Jewish cemetery in the university town. The burial site, not in use since the 1290 expulsion of the Jews from Britain, is located at the city’s Rose Garden, and was identified by Pam Manix, a historian and a member of Oxford Jewish Heritage. The Jewish Chronicle…
