Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg

Jews in Mumbai are celebrating Passover, with the annual festival tinged with poignancy after the death of a respected rabbi and his wife during last year's militant attacks on the city. The ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement will host traditional feasts, or seders, which take place on the first two nights of the eight-day festival that marks the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. But the celebration will not take place at the organisation's Nariman House complex in south Mumbai, which was seized by two Islamist extremist gunmen in November and partially destroyed in fierce fighting with security forces. Six people inside were ... Read Full Story

Jews in Mumbai are celebrating Passover, with the annual festival tinged with poignancy after the death of a respected rabbi and his wife during last year's militant attacks on the city. The ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement will host traditional feasts, or seders, which take place on the first two nights of the eight-day festival that marks the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. But the celebration will not take place at the organisation's Nariman House complex in south Mumbai, which was seized by two Islamist extremist gunmen in November and partially destroyed in fierce fighting with security forces. Six people inside were ... Read Full Story

"They killed three people, not two," said Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, the father of Rivka Holtzberg, during her funeral, indicating that she had been pregnant, Army Radio reported Tuesday. In his eulogy, Rosenberg revealed that his daughter had been five months pregnant, and promised the couple's two-year-old son that the Mumbai Chabad center would be rebuilt soon. More Read Full Story

Media suppresses word 'murder' and overlooks 'torture' by Islamic terrorists By Shelomo Alfassa (November 30, 2008) On Thanksgiving Day 2008, gunshots rang out startling the family of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and others inside the Chabad center in Mumbai , India . A maid at the Chabad center thought it was firecrackers--then an Islamic gunman came up the stairs. Explosions and gunshots rattled the building and continued through the night. At the same time the Chabad center is attacked, Islamic terrorists were attacking a police station and a few minutes later they opened fire at a hospital. They also opened fire in restaurants and ... Read Full Story

MUMBAI: Nariman House, which was rebuilt by the Jewish Orthodox Chabad Lubavitch sect about four years ago and renamed Chabad House, and now ruined again by the terrorists will be rebuilt once again to its former glory and will continue to host visiting Jews from around the world.Nariman House was severely damaged by the terrorists who also killed Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his wife Rivka and three others and held the five-storied building to ransom for over two days before being killed by security personal. Due to heavy gunbattle and extensive use of grenades and explosives, the entire interiors of each five floors have been ... Read Full Story