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Another Indian hero emerges from Mumbai

While the story of Sandra Samuels, the nanny who managed to escape with the 2-year-old son of the Chabad couple murdered in Mumbai, has made international headlines, the story of  Zakir Hussain, who shared her 13-hour ordeal standing between two refrigerators while intermittent firing continued, is little known, The Indian Express reports.

Meanwhile, an American Jewish author sparked a debate when he wrote that last month's terrorist attack on Mumbai's Chabad House was anti-Israeli and not anti-Semitic. Here's the original column in the Guardian.

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