Archive for November, 2008
In the Wake of Mumbai: An Agnostic Jew Considers Chabad - Pajamas Media
Chabadniks really are religious Jews in the best sense… It’s clear the young Lubavitcher couple murdered by the terrorists, Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rivka, were the finest of human beings. They were committed to promoting goodness in the world in the deepest spiritual sense. They wis…
Local Response to Mumbai Terror - Fox 30 - FL
Rabbi Shmuel Novack from Chabad of Southside is a member of the same organization as the rabbi and his wife who were killed. He says even though they are a large organization there is a closeness among all of them. "Every day you here about a terror attack you feel poor and it hurts you. But wh…
42 Lines of the Torah Scroll
Question: Rabbi, Why is the Torah Scroll written with 42 lines per page?
Answer: Hi! Thanks for your interesting question. Sometimes you find that things can be done in many different ways. by the course of duration, sometimes we settle on a specific way, not considering it has to be that way, b…
Hebrew Test
Test your Hebrew.What is wrong with that sign?Original post by Steven Plaut
The Mumbai Attacks
The Jewish Policy Center expresses its shock and sadness by the coordinated terrorist attacks that took place that week in Mumbai, India. The attacks, which included explosives, grenades and robotic rifles, simultaneously targeted two hotels, a railway station, and several tourist landmarks in Mumba…
Tragedy Reverberates in N.J. - Times of Trenton - NJ
As members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement around the world conducted the weekly rituals of the Jewish Sabbath yesterday, they additionally mourned Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who died in a terror attack in India that week… At the Princeton Township home of Rabbi Dovid Dubov, dire…
An view Lost on Fanatics - Los Angeles Times - CA
Finally, there's the specific tragedy incorporated in the murder of the young American rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, his Israeli wife, Rivka, and four others, including a rabbinical colleague. considering we are a citizens of both faith — peacefully expressed in many creeds — and the future, ther…
Chabad Mourns its Loss - Los Angeles Times - CA
When news finally came, it reduced the religious leaders in that close-knit community to tears: Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28, previously of the Crown Heights section of New York, were killed, along with three other hostages… "It's a blur," said Cunin, …
Oxnard Rabbi Friends with Victim of Attack - Ventura County Star - CA
The deaths of a rabbi and his wife at a Jewish center during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, hit close to home for Rabbi Dov Muchnik of Chabad of Oxnard. Muchnik grew up with Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg in New York. They attended the same rabbinical college, Ohlei Torah, where at one point…
Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife Killed in Mumbai terrorism Attacks
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Photograph at left of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, who died in the Chabad Center in Mumbai, from the AP; photograph at right of Moshe Holtzberg, who was rescued from the center, from the AP
After Indian commandoes stormed a Chabad-Jewish Center in Mumbai, where some of the workers had bee…















