A year has passed since the massacre at Chabad House in Mumbai. A memorial ceremony was held at Kfar Chabad. The ceremony included a traditional chalaka, the first haircut at age three, for Moishie Holtzberg, who escaped the carnage with the help of his Indian nanny. 

The event was also being held to honor all of Chabad's shluchim, or global emissaries. It was conducted in the Hebrew language.

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On November 26, 2008 (28 Cheshvan 5769), terrorists took over the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, where they murdered Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29; Rebbetzin Rivka Holtzberg, 28; Bentzion Kruman, 26; Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, 37; Yocheved Orpaz, 62; Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, 50.

The massacre was one of more than ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai which lasted until November 29, killing at least 173 people and wounding at least 308.

Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg, of blessed memory

Rivka cuts ribbon at new mikva (ritual pool) in Mumbai
photo: Chabad.org

A guest dons tefillin to recite the Shema prayer at Mumbai Chabad House 
Photo: Chabad.org

Rabbi Gavriel, Doron ben Avraham and Benjamin Dandekar (Hazzan) at Mumbai Chabad House at Meal before Fast of Esther, Purim 2007
(courtesy Doron ben Avraham)

 

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• Photos from inside the Mumbai Chabad House after the massacre 
• Photo Essay: Funerals of the Martyrs of the Mumbai Massacre