At a reception on Thursday organised by the Canadian Confederation of Chabad Luvabitch, an Orthodox Jewish organisation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his 'deepest sympathies to the Chabad Lubavitch family and all those who mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg." The Rabbi and his wife were killed by terrorists at Nariman House in Mumbai during the terror siege in November last year.
Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, father of Rabbi Gavriel who was killed during the November 26 terror attack intends to rebuild the Nariman House, a Jewish settlement, that was badly damaged during the attacks.
Over 160 people, including a number of Israeli nationals were killed in the terror attack on November 26, 2008
The memorial will be something similar to what it has for the victims of the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Rediff.com journalists Vaihayasi Pande Daniel and Rajesh Karkera attend an emotionally-charged ceremony marking the killing of Jewish Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivka Holtzberg in the attack on Chabad House during the 26/11 carnage. They also attend a parallel ceremony, mourning slain NSG commando Gajendra Singh.
'We can't say that a year has gone by and it doesn't hurt. But that they didn't succeed, that we can say!' Voices from a memorial ceremony in New York for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivika who were killed in the terror attacks.
Rivlin, who attended a prayer meet at the House, said, "I could not have returned to Israel without stopping over and paying my respects to the martyrs of this establishment and other victims who were killed during the 26/11 attacks.
Putting behind the horrors of the 2008 terrorist attack, Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai at Nariman House reopened on Tuesday.
The agency also recovered an electronic circuit used in making explosives from the rented flat of the terror suspects in Pune's Kondhwa area along with 500 GB data from the devices, he said.
'India understands the situation of hostages by just remembering what happened to Baby Moshe as he was held hostage during the 26/11 terror attack'
Investigators have painstakingly pieced together how American terror suspect David Headley used different people to plan out the 26/11 terror attack.
Relatives of a Rabbi, who was gunned down along with his pregnant wife during the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, have filed a wrongful death suit against Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and Lashkar-e-Tayiba at a Brooklyn court. Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were originally from Brooklyn, were killed when the attackers took over the Chabad Lubavitch centre at Nariman House in November 2008. They were slaughtered in front of their two-year-old son.
Family members of the slain Rabbi Gavriel and the Chabad Lubavitch Movement have decided to end their dispute over the ownership rights of the Chabad House, one of the sites in south Mumbai that became target during the 26/11 terror attacks.
Rabbi Chanochm, 25, and Leiky Gechtman, 23, will return to Mumbai as the first permanent Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Ahead of the second anniversary of the 26/11 attacks, the grandparents of terror victim baby Moshe are in Mumbai for a court hearing in connection with a dispute over rebuilding rights of the Chabad House, one of the sites which stands as a mute testimony to the Mumbai siege.
India may approach a New York court to be a party to a lawsuit, filed by the family of 26/11 victims Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, to declare Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence as a terrorist group.
Solomon Sopher, friend of the slain Holtzbergs, tells us of the condolence meeting held in memory of the couple on Monday morning.
Four Hasidic rabbinical students at the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, remember slain Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah.
Nariman House, a Jewish establishment in Mumbai, which was the target of recent terror attacks that killed about 200 people, including eight Israelis, would be reopened soon.The complex, also known as the Chabad House, has been closed after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were killed by the terrorists holed up in the house. The Jewish leaders told the New York Times that after the death of Rabbi, several young Chabad couples from around the world stepped forward.
We bring you an exclusive interview with a personal friend of Israeli hostages Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, Mr Solomon Sopher.
The director of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and his wife Rivika are suspected to be among those being held hostage at its office in Nariman House, Colaba in South Mumbai, by terrorists since Wednesday night
For Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, the death penalty to Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist in 26/11 attack, is a welcome step. But it cannot help in bringing back his daughter and son-in-law, who lost their lives in the 26/11 attacks. "It feels good that the court has awarded death sentence to the terrorist. But it does not comfort us because Gabi and Rivki cannot come back," Rabbi Shimon told PTI over the phone from Israel.
'American-Israelis know the dangers involved. They know they can be targeted, so they always take precautions. Security is important to them,' says Rabbi Sharon Benjamin Galsulkar.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livnitold told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that her ministry is working to bring Sandra Samuel to Israel. The toddler's parents -- Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivika -- serving at the Chabad House or Nariman House in Mumbai as the emissaries of the Chabad movement were killed in the audacious attack.
The brutal killings of the New York-raised Gavriel and his wife Rivkah by terrorists, who had taken over the Nariman building in Mumbai, has plunged the Jewish community here into grief.
'The Jewish community is now more prepared for such unfortunate incidents. Everyone is showing signs of alertness and wherever possible, security is being beefed up,' says Solomon Sopher, a leader of the Jewish community in Mumbai, after the attacks.
'The terrorists did not merely intend to kill and maim the innocent,' says Chicago-based interfaith leader Ebo Patel. 'They intended to provoke a 'clash of civilisations', pitting Hindu against Muslim, India against Pakistan. The best way to honour those killed and injured in these attacks, and the best way to show solidarity with the people of Mumbai, is to work to defuse the crisis that these terrorists seek to advance.'
Unmindful of the tragedy that he had undergone, two-year-old Moshe, dressed in a bright green T-shirt and blue shorts, was carried into a synagogue in Mumbai to attend a prayer meeting in memory of the Jews killed in the terror attack, including that of his parents Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivika.
A two-year-old Israeli boy, who was waiting for two days to be reunited with his parents Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka Holtzberg on his birthday on Friday, will never see them again. The bodies of Tzvi's parents were found by the Commandos of the National Security Guards who stormed the Nariman House in south Mumbai after killing the two holed-up terrorists. Moshe Tzvi had been taken out by his nanny on Thursday when the terrorists stormed into the Nariman House.
Rabbi Sharon Garsulkar talks about his close friends Rabbi Gavriel Holtsberg and Rivka, who are held hostage in Nariman House.
Moshe was only two when terrorists killed his parents at Mumbai's Jewish house. Then 'Baby Moshe' became a face of the innocent victims of ruthless terrorism.
The outreach centre -- one of the sites of the 26/11 attack -- will be turned into a memorial dedicated to all the victims.
In the audio clip, he is heard directing the attack on Chabad House during Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks.
There may be a one-on-one meeting between Fadnavis and Netanyahu, after which the chief minister will host a lunch for the Israeli premier and his delegation.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti, said on Tuesday that India condemns all forms of anti-semitism and all forms of discrimination on religious grounds anywhere in the world.
Mumbai's Chabad House in the Nariman House Colaba, one of the bloody targets of the 26/11 terror strikes, will be renamed as 'Nariman Light House' on the 10th anniversary of the attacks and 10 months after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, official sources said on Friday.
Netanyahu will cap his hectic schedule by attending the 'Shalom Bollywood' event.
Moshe, 11, was two-year-old when his parents were killed in the Mumbai attacks at Nariman House (also known as Chabad House) by Pakistan-based LeT terrorists.
Little Moshe survived the terror onslaught because of his brave Indian nanny Sandra Samuels.
The Israeli diplomat also underlined that the objective of the attack was to cripple the Indian society, economy and culture, as well as the growing bilateral relationship between India and Israel.
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