Mumbai Renovates Mikvah on Eve of Attacks Ann.

Leah Gechtman inspects the newly restored Jewish ritual bath built by the slain directors of the city’s Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.

As part of a rapid increase in Jewish services in the terror-stricken financial capital of Mumbai, India, community officials are placing the final touches on a restored ritual bath built by the murdered directors of the city’s Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.

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PSA: Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Today

Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Thursday, November 25 for the observance of Thanksgiving Day. Because Thanksgiving Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).

The Friday after Thanksgiving, November 26, is not a holiday, and alternate side parking regulations, parking meter rules, and all other parking regulations will be in effect.

The 2010 Alternate Side Parking Suspension Calendar

Op-Ed: Correcting the Mumbai Mess

by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Philanthropist Rabbi Joseph Gutnick, left, shares a word with Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, father of murdered Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, on a landing at the heavily-damaged site of the former Chabad House. Illustration Photo.

Chabad is good at many things. But accepting criticism is not one of them. Every column I publish praising Chabad is met with thousands of comments expressing mostly adulation. But offer a word of criticism and thousands of condemnatory posts ensue. No doubt this column will be greeted with the same. But when the New York Times publishes a major news item, the day before the second secular anniversary of the tragic murders in Mumbai, exposing a public and legal battle between Chabad and the Holtzberg family over Nariman house and the monies collected on behalf of Chabad of Mumbai, a wakeup is in order.