Survivor meets savior after 62 years...

Golda Bushkanietz is not religious but when Irena Walulewicz helped save her from death at the hands of the Nazis, she thought an angel saved her.

After 62 years, the two met at JFK International Airport in New York City at an event sponsored by The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, a group formed in 1986 to give financial assistance to people who rescued Jews during World War II. Bushkanietz, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, hugged Walulewicz and spoke to her in Polish as Walulewicz, who is deaf and mute, wept. "Don't cry, don't cry," Bushkanietz said in Polish. Bushkanietz, 94, is a Jew from Swieciany, Poland who hid in the Walulewicz's home in 1943 when the Nazis were rounding up and killing millions of Jews in Europe and North Africa. "She knocked on the window and they opened up the door. She thought that there was an angel up there who saved her," said her son Joseph More, 59, translating for his mother, who spoke also spoke in Hebrew and Yiddish at a press conference. "My mother is not religious." Bushkanietz and her husband Szymon were rounded up in 1941 and sent to a slave labour camp.

Later, Szymon fled and joined up with partisans. Zofia Walulewicz and daughter Irena, then 17, hid Golda in their attic, bringing her food and regularly emptying a bucket that she used for a toilet. "It's in her religion that she needs to help somebody," said Anna Varshavskaya, her translator.

In November 1943, Golda joined her husband and the partisans, living in underground tunnels and shacks for the rest of the war. She saw Walulewicz once more in 1945. She and Szymon spent three years in a refugee camp in Germany and moved to Israel in 1949. Szymon died 33 years ago. Bushkanietz said she sent the family money over the years but did not visit Poland because they did not have enough money for traveling, More said. It is uncertain how many Jews were rescued by neighbors and other supporters. The Righteous Among the Nations programme at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem counts 21,310 people as helping to rescue Jews and 8,000 rescue stories. "She's very happy to meet (Irena)," More said. "She never forgot."

Fancy dress party for dogs in Britain

Darth Labrador. Dogzilla. Elvis the hound dog. No outfit is too outrageous for man's best friend. The British do love a party animal -- they have gone crazy dressing up their dogs for costume parties.

Sales soared by 300 per cent over Halloween. Now costumiers have lined up a festive big seller -- the one-size-fits-all Santa pet hat for the dog determined to have a great Christmas. "Some cynics would say the British love their dogs more than they do other people," said Benjamin Webb, spokesman for Angels Fancy Dress, who have been supplying costumes for humans since 1840 and are now on a canine winning streak. "It's an American tradition that the British have made their own."

In Britain, the quiet man in accounts comes to a party dressed as Superman whereas the Americans go for crazy costumes. "The British are so quiet and reserved. That is why it's more like wishful thinking," he told Reuters. The costumes range in price from 10 to 20 pounds. Humans can hire outfits, canines are not allowed to. "Dogs can't put down a deposit," Webb explained.

At the Angels Fancy Dress shop in Shaftesbury Avenue, situated in the heart of London theatreland, proud pet owners bring in their dogs to pick a suitable outfit. If the demand keeps soaring, the shop may consider putting in a special fitting room complete with mirrors. Webb said "They use dressing up as an extension of their own personality. We have clients who have identical costumes for themselves and their dogs. It's the whole situation of -- Love me, love my dog." Appalling puns are clearly compulsory in the canine costume business -- as well as Dogzilla, owners can dress their dogs as football "Howligans" to celebrate "Happy Howloween."

One of the biggest sellers is the rock superstar dog -- for anyone who fancies bedecking their immaculately bred golden retriever in a diamante Elvis-style cape, collar and flared trousers. Webb is as bemused as anyone that the British have lifted silliness to new heights. "Nobody would have seen this coming. They really have taken this to their hearts. We love our animals and we have these secret desires we want to fulfil." But he said felines do draw the line at dressing up. "This is a canine fashion. Cats are far too single-minded and refuse to follow fashion," he said.

Couple divorce 4 days after wedding

An Israeli couple has sought divorce just after four days of tying the nuptial knot, making it the world's fastest divorce.

The couple arrived at the Rabbinical court yesterday asking for divorce less than a week after their wedding with the husband arguing that his wife refused to live in his parents house and the wife claiming that he had promised to rent an apartment and live on their own.

The newly weds apparently also had some financial disputes as the wife claimed that she should get a larger share of the wedding gifts and that the husband's family gave cheap gifts.

The rabbis, who failed to convince the couple to reconsider their decision, granted the wife her wish and gave both the divorce papers.

Latest data available from the Rabbinical courts have shown that five per cent of the marriages last only a year in Israel. Last year, 10,000 couples filed for divorce in Israel, an increase of 4 per cent compared to the previous year, with Tel Aviv leading the tally with 723 cases, the report said.

Jerusalem, with a large segment of religious population, surprisingly also showed 10.4 per cent increase in divorces.

One of the findings reveal that about 17 per cent of the total number of divorces in 2006 were filed less than three years after the knot was tied, the portal said.

However, if the marriage survives six years of matrimonial bliss the risk of divorce decreases although 17.5 per cent of the applicants looking for divorce were those who had spent 20-30 years together, it said.