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ISRAEL
Hospitalized Son of Slain Chabad Emissaries Succumbs to Illness
Dec 30, 2008 11:45 AM
The family of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg buried the couple’s four-year-old son Dov Tuesday morning after the boy succumbed to a long illness. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Flames Leap From Mumbai Menorahs
Dec 26, 2008 9:15 AM
Light returned to the city of Mumbai, India, on Thursday with a pair of public Chanukah menorah lightings organized by Chabad-Lubavitch at sites targeted in last month’s terror attacks that killed more than 170 people. |
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ASIA
Menorah Shines From Scene of Mumbai’s Prior Devastation
Dec 25, 2008 3:45 PM
One month after a coordinated series of terror attacks brought life to a standstill in Mumbai, more than 600 people crowded in front of the city’s Gateway to India monument for a public Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony proclaiming that the goodness typified by the targeted Chabad-Lubavitch center would always prevail over evil. |
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HOLIDAY WATCH
Video: Flames Carry Mumbai Menorah’s Light Skyward
Dec 25, 2008 1:20 PM
Hundreds of people crowded in the small alley outside of Mumbai, India’s central Chabad-Lubavitch to witness a public Chanukah menorah lighting outside the six-story building destroyed in last month’s terror attacks. |
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ASIA
Revisiting Mumbai’s Chabad House
Dec 25, 2008 9:45 AM
Mumbai’s devastated Chabad-Lubavitch center was filled with light once more on Thursday as dozens of Jews returned to the destruction to hold prayer services and an impromptu Chasidic gathering. |
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ASIA
Light Again Issues Forth From Mumbai Chabad House
Dec 25, 2008 7:30 AM
Family, friends and colleagues of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries murdered in last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai, India, gathered at the couple’s Chabad House to issue a beacon of light in the form of a Chanukah menorah. |
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ASIA
Mumbai Menorah Will be Lit by Parents of Slain Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries
Dec 24, 2008 2:00 PM
One month after their children perished in the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, the parents of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg will light a Chanukah menorah at the Gateway to India monument. |
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HOLIDAY WATCH
Menorah Lighting at Lady Liberty Will Call for Change Around the World
Dec 22, 2008 3:45 PM
Jewish community leaders will join international representatives and New York officials for an unprecedented grand menorah lighting at the Statue of Liberty organized by Chabad-Lubavitch. |
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EDUCATION
Communities Study Torah in the Merit of Mumbai Victims
Dec 19, 2008 9:00 AM
In addition to the tens of thousands of people who have pledged to spread goodness and kindness throughout the world, and to take on a specific deed in the merit of those who perished last month in the Mumbai terror attacks, many organizations and communities have launched Torah study campaigns as a way to honor the deceased. |
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ASIA
Chabad Hosting First Shabbat Meals in Mumbai Since Terror Attacks
Dec 12, 2008 7:00 AM
Two weeks after the sudden passing of two of its emissaries in one of India’s worst terror attacks, Chabad-Lubavitch organized a Shabbat gathering for visiting Jewish travelers at a local hotel in Mumbai. |
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NORTH AMERICA
International Board to Oversee Chabad Mumbai Relief
Dec 11, 2008 8:30 AM
With the seven-day mourning period concluded for the Jewish victims of the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, Chabad-Lubavitch announced the formation of a board to oversee the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund. |
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FIRST PERSON
A Suitcase of Goodness
Dec 11, 2008
On Sunday, I embarked on a day-long trip to visit the families who were sitting shiva for the victims of the Mumbai tragedy. I was ready for a mission of light. |
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INTERNET
Outpouring of Emotion Seeks to Make Sense of Mumbai Tragedy
Dec 10, 2008 3:50 PM
Perusing the more than 600 reflections submitted by readers to Chabad.org in the days after India’s worst terrorist attack, one thing becomes clear: In the course of their short lives, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg managed to touch many lives. |
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AUSTRALIA
Australian Political Factions Join in Call for Unity at Mumbai Memorial Ceremony
Dec 10, 2008 12:45 PM
Australia’s two leading politicians reached across the party divide Tuesday in a joint call to answer the horrors of terrorism with the steadfast determination to bring light to the world. |
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ISRAEL
Mumbai Victims’ Family Set for Reunification With Orphaned Grandson
Dec 9, 2008 2:30 PM
Family members of the six victims recovered from the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, India, concluded Judaism’s traditional seven-day mourning period on Tuesday. |
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EUROPE
Two Mumbai Survivors Recount Horrifying Ordeal at the Oberoi Hotel
Dec 7, 2008 5:30 PM
Were it not for a wedding function at Mumbai’s Oberoi Trident Hotel last month, diamond industry professionals Toni Nagel of the United Kingdom and Marc Schwalb of Belgium might not have made it back home before the conclusion of India’s worst terror attack. |
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ISRAEL
Orphaned Son of Chabad House Directors Will Be Raised by Family
Dec 5, 2008 9:00 AM
Despite a few rumors and some press reports to the contrary, Moshe Holtzberg, the two-year-old orphan of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg will be raised by his family in Israel. |
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OBITUARY
Quiet Success of Mumbai Rabbi Ran Alongside His Boundless Energy
Dec 4, 2008 2:30 PM
To those who knew him, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg was both a scholar and confidant, a friend whose purpose in life was to help Jewish people wherever they were. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Post-Mumbai World: South Asians Stand in Solidarity With Jewish Community
Dec 4, 2008 1:00 PM
Sitting among the government officials and rabbinical leaders who came to the Israeli village of Kfar Chabad to pay their respects to the fallen directors of Mumbai, India’s Chabad-Lubavitch center, the presence of Indian Ambassador Navtej Sarna testified that last week’s slaughter of more than 190 people over the course of 60 hours touched the world in ways unseen. |
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