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Peter Green, founding member of Fleetwood Mac, at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York, on April 7, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)
July 25, 2020, 8:26 pm
Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac’s pioneering, troubled, blues guitarist, dies at 73
Green, fourth child of an east London Jewish family, had ‘the sweetest tone I ever heard,’ said B.B. King; wrote ‘Black Magic Woman,’ ‘Oh Well,’ ‘Albatross’
By Robert Barr and DANICA KIRKA
Pro-union supporters, opposing Scottish independence from the United Kingdom wave flags during a rally in Trafalgar Square in London on September 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/CYRIL VILLEMAIN)
September 20, 2014, 2:09 am
Scotland: Who won? Who lost?
Winners include the 55.3% of Scots who voted to stay part of the UK, Gordon Brown and J.K. Rowling
By Robert Barr
Alice Herz-Sommer (photo credit: courtesy)
February 23, 2014, 10:10 pm
Alice Herz-Sommer, oldest-known Holocaust survivor, dies at 110
Pianist and inspiration for Oscar-nominated documentary ‘The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life’ passes away in London
By Robert Barr and SYLVIA HUI
Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known surviving biblical manuscripts dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE, on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 12, 2013, 1:19 pm
Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88
Born in Hungary to a Jewish family that converted to Catholicism to combat anti-Semitism, the Dead Sea Scrolls translator entered the priesthood to pursue his studies, later reconverting to Judaism
By Robert Barr
Margaret Thatcher with Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem in 1986. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 8, 2013, 3:33 pm
Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
Netanyahu calls Britain’s first female premier a ‘woman of greatness’ and a ‘staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people’
By Gregory Katz and Robert Barr
15-year old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai, who is recovering in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being attacked and shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. Malala was shot and critically wounded on Oct. 9 as she headed home from school in the northwest Swat Valley, Pakistan. (photo credit: AP Photo / University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)
October 20, 2012, 2:31 am
Heroic Pakistani girl, 15, shot in head by Taliban for demanding education, is making a recovery
Malala Yousufzai, a symbol of bravery who had been blogging about life in the Swat Valley since she was 11, able to stand in her British hospital
By Robert Barr
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