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Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night. Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai. The first shooting took place near the CST police station

This morning as the sun rose over Jerusalem, my wife Leah gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at the Hadassah Medical center. A few hours later I drove to the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi where my wife's parents live.After packing several personal items that my wife will need for her hospital stay, I set out to drive back to Jerusalem. As I passed the central bus station in Kiryat Malachi, I saw an Israeli soldier waiting to get a ride. I rolled down the window and asked him where he needed to go. He said his...

Menachem Mendel Schneerson ROMA, February 16, 2005 - In an extensive interview in the first issue of "Oasis," the new international magazine of the patriarchate of Venice, the Custodian of the Holy Land, Franciscan Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, speaks of the "Israeli Jews who have encountered Christ and received baptism." In Israel, he says, these amount to "several hundred persons." And he foresees that they will remain few in number: "Judaism does not allow for conversion. Of course, the state does not forbid making different choices. But there is a lack of understanding, and tension." For this reason, Hebrew Christians...