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New Mumbai rabbi highlights worldwide Jewish mission

| From reuters.com
NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - As they prepare for the High Holidays this week, the Jewish community in India 's financial capital Mumbai has good news to report two years after its rabbi there died in an Islamist assault on the city. A new rabbi has arrived, a new community center is open and their worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement is once again at full strength in Mumbai pursuing its mission to support Jewish life wherever Jews can be found. The three-day siege in November 2008 claimed 166 lives...Read Full Story

Mumbai center targeted in '08 siege gets new rabbi

| From ap.org
An Israeli couple will take charge of Mumbai's Chabad House, a Jewish community center that has been without a permanent rabbi since the previous leader was killed in the November 2008 terror attacks, a Chabad official said Thursday. Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, who heads the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund, said the new couple will replace Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were among the six murdered during a spasm of violence that left the center scarred with bullet holes and grenade blasts. Their...Read Full Story

Mumbai Jewish center caught in court battle

| From ap.org
The lights and water have been turned off at the Jewish center stormed by Pakistani gunmen during their 2008 rampage through the Indian financial capital, and the windows remain gaping holes that let in the wind. The reconstruction of Mumbai's Chabad House has been halted and the Bombay High Court has taken possession of the building that became a symbol of the terror attack — which began two years ago Friday — as the parents of its slain rabbi fight a Jewish group over who should control it...Read Full Story

'Army without weapons' fights back after attacks

| From afp.com
The storming of a Jewish cultural and religious centre in Mumbai by Islamist gunmen one year ago left six people dead and a deep scar in the psyche of the Jewish outreach movement that ran the site. Among the victims were Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his pregnant wife, Rivki, 28, who had come to India's financial capital from New York five years earlier to establish an open house for visiting Jews and the local community. "Their holy space was violated in the most brutal, evil fashion...Read Full Story

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The father of Rivkah Holtzberg, who was killed along with her husband Gavriel during the terror attack on the Chabad house in Mumbai, India last month, held a menorah-lighting ceremony at his Afula home Sunday evening. Moshe Holtzberg, the murdered couple's 2-year-old son, lit the first Hanukkah candle.Read Full Story
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