BANGALORE, India — India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the fourth one in India.
After years of serving Bangalore’s Jewish community through frequent visits and summer and holiday stints by rabbinical students, Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg, Chabad representative to Bombay, determined that Karnataka’s capital city is due its own Chabad center.
Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore
BANGALORE, India — India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the fourth one in India.
After years of serving Bangalore’s Jewish community through frequent visits and summer and holiday stints by rabbinical students, Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg, Chabad representative to Bombay, determined that Karnataka’s capital city is due its own Chabad center.
According to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos, there were many requests by local Jews wanting to see a permanent Chabad center open in Bangalore.
The rented facility in the city’s hotel district now serves as a synagogue, a center for Jewish educational classes, and kosher meals. Plans include a mikvah as well.
“The new Chabad Center is the result of the groundwork laid over many holidays and summers during which we developed strong relationships and evaluated the needs of the city’s Jewish population,” says Rabbi Holtzberg.
Other Chabad centers in India are in Bombay, Manali, and Goa.
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Is this something new??? Have we been here before during the past 3,000 years? Does knowing that we are the “chosen ones” for death by radical people help in prepsring the thought process that in 2008 in a modernized, urbanized city that a Chabad would be one of the main targets of those seeking our Westerners to harm?
My prayers go to the souls of the murdered, and to the children of the Rabbi….please announce where funds can be sent to help with their raising.
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