fbpx

Memorial service held at former Mumbai Chabad center

A memorial ceremony was held at the former Mumbai Chabad center.
[additional-authors]
November 18, 2009

A memorial ceremony was held at the former Mumbai Chabad center.

The multi-faith ceremony was held Tuesday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the city. The Nov. 26-29 attacks on several sites in Mumbai by an Islamist Pakistani group left 166 dead and hundreds injured.

Six Jews were killed at the Chabad center, including Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who ran the center.

The Holtzberg’s then-2-year-old son, Moshe, was rescued from the building by his Indian nanny.

Chabad has moved to a secret location in the city to protect its security.

Another ceremony is set for the Mumbai center on Nov. 26, as well as a memorial service the previous day at a synagogue in Kalaghoda being organized by the local Jewish community, the Press Trust of India reported.

A ceremony in Israel at Kfar Chabad was set to take place Wednesday. Thousands of people are expected to attend, according to the Jerusalem Post.

During the ceremony, Moshe Holtzberg is scheduled to receive his first haircut in an “upshirin,” a rite of passage for 3-year-old Jewish boys.

Did you enjoy this article?
You'll love our roundtable.

Editor's Picks

A Night of Gratitude Honoring Dennis Prager

Latest Articles

The View from Israel

Three years after Oct. 7, Israel is still waiting for a full accounting of what went wrong.

Remember and Be Grateful

Memory is the mother of gratitude. If we do not remember our past, it is difficult to improve our present or build a better future.

From Atop the Pulpit

New opportunities and challenges have always come and gone. But pulpit clergy with their years of training, education and perspective on life, generated from atop the pulpit, are especially well suited for whatever lies ahead.

A Different Kind of Tower

The Tower of Babel reminds us how easily language can divide us. Our shared history reminds us of what becomes possible when we find ways to understand one another.

Paris on Fire, America on Edge and the Generation of the Flood

What is especially troubling to me is that at many of these protests in France you will find signs reading “Intifada Revolution” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Arab,” along with ubiquitous Palestinian flags, and Hamas flags too.

Torah Portion: Lech Lecha

In this parsha, we meet the first hire — employee #1 — of Jew, Inc. a new God-created enterprise that will change everything.

“What is Life Worth?”

Determine how much a man’s life – and death – are WORTH? The man who did this for the 9/11 families!

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.