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Daily Archives: December 1, 2008


Chilling video of young Moshe crying for his mother - Hebrew

MUMBAI, India — In a tearful ceremony, the Jewish community of Mumbai paid their last respects to Chabad House emissaries Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, killed in the terror attack last Wednesday, at the Knesset Eliyahu Synagogue yesterday. Rivka's parents, Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg were in attendance, along with the Holtzbergs' 2-year-old son, Moshe, who survived the attack.

Mumbai Jewish Community Bids Slain Chabad Emissaries Tearful Farewell, as Bodies Flown Home

Chilling video of young Moshe crying for his mother – Hebrew

MUMBAI, India — In a tearful ceremony, the Jewish community of Mumbai paid their last respects to Chabad House emissaries Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, killed in the terror attack last Wednesday, at the Knesset Eliyahu Synagogue yesterday. Rivka’s parents, Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg were in attendance, along with the Holtzbergs’ 2-year-old son, Moshe, who survived the attack.

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New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.
Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
Jason Song and Ted Rohrlich - LA Times

Hundreds gather Sunday in Westwood to mourn those killed in the Mumbai attacks.
Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES, CA — Jews in Los Angeles on Sunday mourned a slain couple who had run a Mumbai Jewish center besieged by terrorists. As local leaders decried the attack in India, arrangements were underway to move the emissaries' 2-year-old son Moshe to Israel, where he will live with his maternal grandparents and the nanny who rescued him.

L.A. Chabad mourns couple slain in Mumbai

Jason Song and Ted Rohrlich – LA Times

Hundreds gather Sunday in Westwood to mourn those killed in the Mumbai attacks.
Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES, CA — Jews in Los Angeles on Sunday mourned a slain couple who had run a Mumbai Jewish center besieged by terrorists. As local leaders decried the attack in India, arrangements were underway to move the emissaries’ 2-year-old son Moshe to Israel, where he will live with his maternal grandparents and the nanny who rescued him.

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Shauna Steigerwald - The Enquirer

Rabbi Berel Cohen, director of youth and family programming at Chabad Jewish Center, explains how to use the olive press.

CINCINNATI, OH — This year, Chanukah shopping turns into a family adventure with Chabad Jewish Center at the Blue Ash Kroger. The Olive Press Workshop, hosted by Judah Maccabee, will be staging two free presentations in the kosher department at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14.

Judah Maccabee to host Olive Press Workshop at Blue Ash Kroger

Shauna Steigerwald – The Enquirer

Rabbi Berel Cohen, director of youth and family programming at Chabad Jewish Center, explains how to use the olive press.

CINCINNATI, OH — This year, Chanukah shopping turns into a family adventure with Chabad Jewish Center at the Blue Ash Kroger. The Olive Press Workshop, hosted by Judah Maccabee, will be staging two free presentations in the kosher department at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14.

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by Naftali Salomon

The tragedies that unfolded this past week have left us all with sadness, sorrow and mourning; with more questions than answers.

Yet none is greater than the question asked of Hashem by our forefather Avraham in the book of B’reishis. When Hashem informed Avraham of His intent to destroy Sodom for their wicked ways, Avraham asked:

האף תספה, צדיק עם-רשע...חללה לך מעשת כדבר הזה, להמית צדיק עם-רשע, והיה כצדיק, כרשע; חללה לך--השפט כל-הארץ, לא יעשה משפט.

Op-Ed: The Mumbai Massacre – A Torah Reflection

by Naftali Salomon

The tragedies that unfolded this past week have left us all with sadness, sorrow and mourning; with more questions than answers.

Yet none is greater than the question asked of Hashem by our forefather Avraham in the book of B’reishis. When Hashem informed Avraham of His intent to destroy Sodom for their wicked ways, Avraham asked:

האף תספה, צדיק עם-רשע…חללה לך מעשת כדבר הזה, להמית צדיק עם-רשע, והיה כצדיק, כרשע; חללה לך–השפט כל-הארץ, לא יעשה משפט.
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The Jerusalem Post

Stock Photo - The scene inside the Chabad House after the siege.

MUMBAI, India — The security officer at the Israeli consulate in Mumbai was arrested by Indian police as he raced toward the Chabad House last Wednesday after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg telephoned to say it was under attack.

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Sunday confirmed that the officer had been intercepted en route to what he had hoped would be a rescue mission, but stressed that Israel had no complaints with Indian security personnel over the incident.

Israeli Consulate’s Mumbai Security Chief Was Arrested En Route to Chabad House Rescue

The Jerusalem Post

Stock Photo – The scene inside the Chabad House after the siege.

MUMBAI, India — The security officer at the Israeli consulate in Mumbai was arrested by Indian police as he raced toward the Chabad House last Wednesday after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg telephoned to say it was under attack.

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Sunday confirmed that the officer had been intercepted en route to what he had hoped would be a rescue mission, but stressed that Israel had no complaints with Indian security personnel over the incident.

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Jason Koutsoukis - The Age

JERUSALEM, Israel — The Indian nanny who rescued two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg from the attack at Mumbai's Chabad Jewish Centre will be conferred with a special honour usually reserved for those who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust.

The “righteous gentile” award will enable Sandra Samuel to live in Israel. She and Moshe are expected to arrive in the country next week to live with the boy's maternal grandparents.

Israel Names Nanny a ‘Righteous Gentile’

Jason Koutsoukis – The Age

JERUSALEM, Israel — The Indian nanny who rescued two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg from the attack at Mumbai’s Chabad Jewish Centre will be conferred with a special honour usually reserved for those who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust.

The “righteous gentile” award will enable Sandra Samuel to live in Israel. She and Moshe are expected to arrive in the country next week to live with the boy’s maternal grandparents.

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Grand Prize: M. Cohen
Split the Pot: Nechama Hershkop
Jackpot # 1: Rachel Seeve
Jackpot # 2: Dina Valov
Dollar a Day Raffle: Shoshana Plotkin
Auction Special: Priscilla Sutton

Click Here for the Photo Gallery from the Auction!

List Continues in the Extended Article!

The List of Winners from the Ten Yad Auction

Grand Prize: M. Cohen
Split the Pot: Nechama Hershkop
Jackpot # 1: Rachel Seeve
Jackpot # 2: Dina Valov
Dollar a Day Raffle: Shoshana Plotkin
Auction Special: Priscilla Sutton

Click Here for the Photo Gallery from the Auction!

List Continues in the Extended Article!

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Kobi Nahshoni - YNet News

Stock photo - Mumbai Chabad House

JERUSALEM, Israel — Chabad houses serve as a kind of Israeli embassies throughout the world and the government should allocate a budget for them accordingly and take responsibility for securing them, the Chief Rabbinate Council declared on Monday in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Council members meeting for the first time since being sworn in about a month ago, adopted the proposal of Rabbi Shimon Elitov of the Binyamin Regional Council who is associated with the Chabad movement, and urged the government to act on this matter.

Chief Rabbinate Urges Israel to Secure Chabad Houses

Kobi Nahshoni – YNet News

Stock photo – Mumbai Chabad House

JERUSALEM, Israel — Chabad houses serve as a kind of Israeli embassies throughout the world and the government should allocate a budget for them accordingly and take responsibility for securing them, the Chief Rabbinate Council declared on Monday in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Council members meeting for the first time since being sworn in about a month ago, adopted the proposal of Rabbi Shimon Elitov of the Binyamin Regional Council who is associated with the Chabad movement, and urged the government to act on this matter.

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Cara Buckley - The New York Times

Members of the Lubavitch community prayed last week at the group’s headquarters in Brooklyn.
Michael Nagle for The New York Times

BROOKLYN, NY — For many Jews, they are homes away from home: Chabad Houses, welcoming outposts in foreign lands or across the United States, places to drop in to celebrate Hanukkah, Passover or weekly Shabbat dinners.

Almost always, the Chabad Houses are run by young couples, emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, a Hasidic faith with its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, whose adherents believe that secular Jews ought to become more observant.

Chabad Vows to Continue Work of Couple Killed in Attack

Cara Buckley – The New York Times

Members of the Lubavitch community prayed last week at the group’s headquarters in Brooklyn.
Michael Nagle for The New York Times

BROOKLYN, NY — For many Jews, they are homes away from home: Chabad Houses, welcoming outposts in foreign lands or across the United States, places to drop in to celebrate Hanukkah, Passover or weekly Shabbat dinners.

Almost always, the Chabad Houses are run by young couples, emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, a Hasidic faith with its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, whose adherents believe that secular Jews ought to become more observant.

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NOVOURALSK, Russia [FJC] — In the spirit of inter-ethnic accord and mutual understanding among the forty ethnic groups living in the region, the Urals city of Novouralsk hosted the ‘National Family’ Festival. On November 29th, in the city’s ‘Stroitel’ House of Culture, the festivities engaged an enthusiastic audience and just as eager performers. Representing the Jewish community of Novouralsk was the entire Nikiforov family.

The festival also featured an exhibition organized by the Jewish community, at which visitors had the chance to learn about the happenings in local Jewish life, as well as to see the works of students attending the Jewish Sunday school. There, they could also sample the national dish of gefilte fish (stuffed fish), which was prepared by Oksana Kandalovoy on behalf of the Jewish Women’s Club run by the community.

Jews Partake in Festival

NOVOURALSK, Russia [FJC] — In the spirit of inter-ethnic accord and mutual understanding among the forty ethnic groups living in the region, the Urals city of Novouralsk hosted the ‘National Family’ Festival. On November 29th, in the city’s ‘Stroitel’ House of Culture, the festivities engaged an enthusiastic audience and just as eager performers. Representing the Jewish community of Novouralsk was the entire Nikiforov family.

The festival also featured an exhibition organized by the Jewish community, at which visitors had the chance to learn about the happenings in local Jewish life, as well as to see the works of students attending the Jewish Sunday school. There, they could also sample the national dish of gefilte fish (stuffed fish), which was prepared by Oksana Kandalovoy on behalf of the Jewish Women’s Club run by the community.

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