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Pilot in Libyan crash hampered by low visibility

Low visibility caused by mist and sand created poor flying conditions for the pilot of an Afriqiyah Airways flight that crashed just before landing in Tripoli, Libyan sources with knowledge of the investigation said Saturday. The plane, an Airbus A330-200, originated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was at the end of its nearly nine-hour flight when it crashed Wednesday. All ...

Pillar of Italy Jewish community dies

Tullia Zevi, a pillar of Italy’s Jewish community and an ardent anti-fascist who spent the war years in exile in Switzerland, France and the US , died Saturday. She was 91.Zevi, the only female president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and the longtime vice president of the European Jewish Congress, died in Rome, current union president Renzo Gattegna ...

PETROL HITS £6 A GALLON

THE £6 gallon arrived at Britain’s petrol pumps yesterday as motorists continue to be hammered by Labour.Unleaded hit an average of 119.9p a litre for the first time ever, breaking the previous July 2008 record of 119.7p.But some forecourts are already charging 131.9p a litre – just a penny short of the £6 gallon.“This is a dark day for Britain’s ...

Pesach (Passover) Holiday to Begin Monday Eve

Passover (Pesach) will take place this year between sunset on Monday, March 25, and sunset on Monday, April 1. The first and seventh days are marked as Sabbath-like holy days (Yom Tov) in which work is forbidden.Jews outside of Israel, and those visiting Israel only for the holiday, observe an additional day in both the beginning and end of Pesach, which lasts ...

Pesach Farbrengen and Kinus Torah in CH

Chai Nissan marked the birthday of the Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbes father, and the day of the Rebbes Bris. Following the Rebbes Horaah a special Farbrengen and Kinus Torah was held in Crown Heights.Rabbi Sholom Ber Levin opened the evening with explanations and sources for many of the Lubavitcher Pesach Minhagim relating to food.Rabbi Eliezer Teitelbaum, the rabbinical coordinator ...

Personal Shoa-era Items put on Display

Dozens of meters in the bowels of the earth, under the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, is one of the most important collections of the Jewish people. Some 150 million papers documenting the horrible disaster, item by item, through pictures and testimonies.This work is far from being completed. In the past two years, the Holocaust Museum workers – in collaboration ...

Peres: Rabbis’ petition against renting to Arabs creates moral crisis in Israel

President Shimon Peres on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of a letter signed by several leading rabbis calling on Israelis to refrain from renting or selling property to non-Jews.“The rabbis’ letter creates a fundamental moral crisis in Israel which affects the definition of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,” Peres said.“Every person is created in God’s image – that ...

Peres: Israel’s ties with Egypt are historic

Israel’s ties with Egypt are historic, President Shimon Peres said while visiting Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in honor of the Passover holiday.“This Passover is different from all others. This Passover, Egyptians themselves are trying to leave the house of slavery,” Peres told the spiritual leader. The Passover story tells of how Jews fled slavery in Egypt in order ...

Peres: Israel needs to formulate its own Mideast peace plan

Israel needs to draft its own Mideast peace initiative if it wants to avoid international pressure over a reported U.S peace plan, President Shimon Peres said on Friday, following a report claiming Washington was working on a plan to restart stalled peace talks.Peres’ comments came in the wake of a New York Times reportclaiming that the administration of U.S. President Barack ...

Peres: I’m convinced Gilad Shalit will return home alive and well

President Shimon Peres told the parents of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit that he was optimistic regarding the chances of their son’s release, placing the blame for the lack of success in securing his release after 5 years in captivity on Hamas.Peres’ comments came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday appointed senior Mossad official David Meidan as the new ...

Pentagon focusing on ‘main suspect’ in Afghanistan leak

The Pentagon is focusing on jailed Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as the main suspect in the leak of tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told CNN Wednesday. Manning, 22, is believed to have accessed a worldwide military classified internet and e-mail system to download tens of thousands of ...

Paul McCartney’s new bride gets synagogue blessing ahead of wedding

Former Beatle Paul McCartney married American heiress Nancy Shevell on Sunday, after receiving a blessing at a local London synagogue.McCartney wed the divorced New Yorker in a civil ceremony at London’s Marylebone Register Office before 30 invited guests, ahead of a reception in his back garden in north London, reports said. He reportedly serenaded her with a song written in ...