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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media

		Chabad Community to Hold Services for Mumbai Victims The Salem News - MA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Chabad of the North Shore will gather at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Swampscott and Saturday at 11 a.m. in Peabody (after regular observances) to remember 29-year-old Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his 28-year-old wife, Rivkah. The couple ran a Chabad-Lubavitch outreach center in Mumbai... "It has impacted the entire Jewish community and the wider community as well," Rabbi Yossi Lipsker of Swampscott said yesterday of the attacks. "I don't think there is anybody who has not in some way been touched by this."
		Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore – Swampscott, MA         Chabad of Peabody Jewish Center – Peabody, MA         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Nashville Jews Honor those Killed in India The Tennessean, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel, who spoke at the service, grew up down the road from Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who was killed alongside his wife, Rivka, in the massacre at the Chabad House. "These people attacked a little house in the center of 15 million people," Tiechtel said. "This was not only an attack on Mumbai, this was an attack on us. We should turn our grief into action." He called on the group not to lock themselves away in fear, but to get out and do something for the community.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India         Congregation Beit Tefilah – Bellevue, TN
		For Local Rabbi, Terror Attacks In Mumbai Hit Close To Home The Day - CT, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		”You hardly find people like that, who just lived a life not for themselves but for others,” said Sternberg, director of Chabad of Eastern Connecticut and spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavath Chesed in New London. Sternberg, also a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect, grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with Holtzberg, who went to school with Sternberg's younger brother... ”Such a small number of people were able to plan so much in advance and bring so much destruction,” Sternberg said. “Imagine if we all get together and try to impact the world in a powerful way, for the good.”
		Chabad of Eastern Connecticut – New London, CT         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Memorial for Mumbai Tragedy to be Held by Jewish Student Center The Gainesville Sun - FL, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		A public vigil and memorial service will be held this evening to allow area residents to express their grief over the Mumbai tragedy. The memorial is being organized by the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center and will begin at 7:30 p.m. In a news release about the event, center director Rabbi Berl Goldman said "Our task now is to offer comfort and support to the survivors, and take action in memory of the victims."
		Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Center – Gainesville, FL         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Chabad House Rabbi Responds to Mumbai Tragedy Lexington Minuteman - MA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Rabbi Alti Bukiet, director of Chabad of Lexington, will join 22 Chabad rabbis from the Greater Boston area at the Statehouse today to respond to the tragedy in Mumbai and share their memories of their colleagues, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were among those murdered in the recent terrorists attacks... The outpouring of love and concern from around the globe has been heartening for the local Chabad Rabbis and their families. "The harrowing events have elicited prayers and heartfelt tears from every sector of our community," said Rabbi Bukiet.
		Chabad Center of Lexington – Lexington, MA         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Rabbi Holds Memorial To Honor Friend, Mumbai Victim WFTV - Orlando, FL, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Chaim Lipskier held a memorial Monday night with several students from the University of Central Florida at the Chabad House near the university. Lipskier's lifelong friend, a rabbi from New York and his wife, were killed when terrorist invaded the Chabad House in Mumbai. Lipskier said the deaths are not only a personal tragedy, but it's a global one as well.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India         Chabad @ University of Central Florida – Oviedo, FL
		Chabadniks Show Indomitable Spirit The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		A friend of mine who belongs to the Lubavitch movement began sending me emails shortly after we all learned last week of how terrorists in Mumbai savagely tortured and killed the inhabitants of the Chabad Lubavitch center in that city... How has this group of very orthodox Jews reacted to the murders of an American man and his Israeli wife? By giving suggestions of how to keep alive the spirits of those who died by increasing in good deeds and lighting Sabbath candles in remembrance of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg... The tragedy of it all keeps on piling on. Meanwhile, the Chabadniks are not giving up. People of all religions could learn from their tenacity.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		For Indian Jews, Sense of Security is Shattered JTA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		The Colaba neighborhood that surrounds the modern apartment block where terrorists last week murdered a Chabad-Lubavitch couple and four other Jews has begun to return to normal... But for Mumbai’s ancient Jewish community, nothing will ever be the same. “This is the first time when a Jew has been targeted in India because he is a Jew,” said Jonathon Solomon, a Mumbai lawyer and the president of the Indian Jewish Federation. “The tradition of the last thousand years has been breached.”
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Pained but Resolute, Chabad Buries Emissaries JTA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Rabbis wept, women wailed and Chabad faithful called for avenging the tragedy in Mumbai with holiness and love as thousands gathered here Tuesday for the funerals of the two Chabad emissaries killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.The mourners came together under a sun-drenched Israeli sky in this Chabad-Lubavitch town near Tel Aviv outside the replica of the late Lubavitcher rebbe’s home in Brooklyn, N.Y. The bodies of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg were laid out in front of the red-brick house side by side, wrapped in prayer shawls.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Israel Buries Mumbai Attack Dead BBC - England, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		At the Chabad headquarters in Kfar Chabad, a village near Tel Aviv, around 10,000 mourners thronged the main square for the funerals of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah, 28... "The house they built here in Mumbai will live with them," Rivkah's father, Shimon Rosenberg, told about 100 mourners at Keneseth Eliyahoo synagogue. "They were the mother and father of the Jewish community in Mumbai," he said. "The House of Chabad will live again."
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		SF: Jewish Community to Honor Rabbi and Wife Slain in Mumbai Attack Associated Press (AP), Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Local Jewish community officials, including the Consulate Generals of Israel and India, will gather at a memorial in San Francisco today for a rabbi and his wife who were killed in the Mumbai, India terrorist attacks last week... "This is a horrific tragedy," Langer said. "The communities are devastated, are saddened, are fearful." He said the Jewish faith, however, aims to turn such tragic events into a channel for positive thinking.
		Chabad of S. Francisco – S. Francisco, CA         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		FSU Chabad Emissaries Remember Holtzbergs JTA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		In Moscow, more than 100 people attended a prayer service Tuesday afternoon in the city's large community center. Russia's head Chabad rabbi, Berel Lazar, was in Israel to attend the memorial service for the young couple as a representative of Russian Jewry. "In moments like this, when Jews are killed once again only because they are Jews, we must be united," Lazar said in a letter to the Russian Jewish community. "We know that unity is our people's pledge of salvation."
		Jewish Community of Sochi – Sochi, Russia         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India         Chief Rabbinate of Russia – Moscow, Russia
		Thousands at Funeral of Jewish Couple Slain in Mumbai ABC News, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		On the Mount of Olives and overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were laid to rest. Thousands of religious Jewish mourners turned out to pay their respects. Earlier in the day outside the ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement's headquarters near Tel Aviv, a moving ceremony was held with leading rabbis delivering eulogies. First to speak was Chabad movement's senior rabbi, Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi: "Why? Why? Jews who dedicated their lives to God!"
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Mumbai Chabad Victims Laid to Rest JTA, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Thousands attended the memorial ceremony Tuesday in Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv, for emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg. President Shimon Peres, Knesset members and Indian representatives, as well as Chabad leaders, were among those in attendance. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the vice chairman of the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, announced in his eulogy that the Mumbai Chabad house would be renamed in the Holtzbergs' memory.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Israel Buries Victims of Mumbai Attacks CNN, Tuesday, December 02, 2008
		Thousands of mourners and emissaries from the Jewish Chabad movement poured into an Israeli village Tuesday for the funerals of two people killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. There was a feeling of pain and anger at the funeral in Kfar Chabad, a village of 900 families just outside Tel Aviv. Speeches at the funeral said the gunmen sought out the Chabad House in Mumbai and targeted the victims because of their faith.
		Local Jewish Community Honors Rabbi, Wife Killed in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, December 01, 2008
		Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and wife Rivka, 28, were killed in the Chabad Lubavitch offices in the Indian city. Though miles away, the impact of their deaths reaches into South Florida. Rabbi Mendy Muskal, of the Chabad of Wellington, knew Holtzberg and was particularly struck... "The reaction throughout our community is one of a deep loss. The pain is extremely deep, as if we lost a family member."
		Chabad Lubavitch of Wellington – Wellington, FL         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Orphan's Cries Makes for Wrenching Memorial Service for Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife Murdered in Mumbai Daily News - NY, Monday, December 01, 2008
		Moshe's heartbreaking wail echoed through the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in Mumbai, where hundreds mourned the boy's parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28. Rivkah's father, Shimon Rosenberg, wept as he delivered the eulogy and read from the Book of Job: "The Lord giveth. The Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		L.A. Chabad Mourns Couple Slain in Mumbai Los Angeles Times - CA, Monday, December 01, 2008
		About 1,000 people attended a memorial at the West Coast headquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad organization in Westwood, closing a stretch of Gayley Avenue as they paid tribute to Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, and vowed to remain steadfast in the face of the attacks. Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, executive director of West Coast Chabad Lubavitch, addressed his remarks directly to the terrorists, saying, "You thought you would do us in, but . . . we the Jewish people, we who believe in light . . . we shall continue."
		Chabad West Coast Headquarters – Los Angeles, CA         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Chabad Honors Pair Slain in India Ventura County Star – CA, Monday, December 01, 2008
		Turn pain into growth and darkness into light. That was the message Sunday during a memorial and prayer service organized by the Chabad centers in Ventura, Oxnard and Camarillo for Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were killed Thursday along with three other hostages at the Chabad house in Mumbai, India, during the terrorist attacks there... Memorial services for the couple have been held at Chabad centers all over the world, including one at Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills on Sunday... "It was the address of every Jew passing through India," Latowicz said. "They were our best, and as it turns out, they were our bravest."
		Chabad of Ventura - Jewish Community Center – Ventura, CA         Chabad of Oxnard – Oxnard, CA
		Local Response to Mumbai Terror Fox 30 - FL, Sunday, November 30, 2008
		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 time you here about a terror attack you feel bad and it hurts you. But when it's somebody you're acquainted with the pain is that much stronger" said Rabbi Shmuel... Southside of Chabad will start a torah study this week on how to deal with terror. They’ll also start a charity to rebuild the Chabad house in Mumbai and fund to help the children rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rivkah Holzberg left behind.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India         Chabad of Southside – Jacksonville, FL
		Tragedy Reverberates in N.J. Times of Trenton - NJ, Saturday, November 29, 2008
		As members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement around the world conducted the weekly rituals of the Jewish Sabbath yesterday, they also mourned Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who died in a terror attack in India this week... At the Princeton Township home of Rabbi Dovid Dubov, director of Chabad of Mercer County, the rabbi's children gathered to light oil candles and his wife Malka covered her eyes to pray... The two families also shared a bond as emissaries of Chabad, which has outposts around the United States and the world -- in Princeton and Mumbai and some 3,300 other locations, according to the organization.
		Chabad of Mercer County - Princeton – Princeton, NJ
		Oxnard Rabbi Friends with Victim of Attack Ventura County Star - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008
		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 they sat next to each other... "This is a huge tragedy," Muchnik said Friday. "We're talking about an innocent couple that were out there not for business or pleasure but to give their lives to others. It's so hard to believe that I'm talking to you about them in the past tense. It's really shocking."
		Chabad Mourns its Loss Los Angeles Times - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008
		When news finally came, it reduced the religious leaders in this close-knit community to tears: Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28, formerly of the Crown Heights section of New York, were killed, along with three other hostages... "It's a blur," said Cunin, who was among half a dozen called to the Westwood home of his father, Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, executive director of West Coast Chabad Lubavitch, about 4 p.m. Wednesday after news of the Mumbai attacks broke. The younger Cunin and others have worked tirelessly in recent days to help the Holtzberg family, contacting friends around the world.
		Chabad West Coast Headquarters – Los Angeles, CA         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		An Idea Lost on Fanatics Los Angeles Times - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008
		Finally, there's the particular tragedy incorporated in the murder of the young American rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, his Israeli wife, Rivka, and four others, including a rabbinical colleague. Because we are a people of both faith -- peacefully expressed in many creeds -- and the future, there is something in the American conscience that recoils with a special horror when violence is done to clergy and the young... They could not have found a more confounding target for their hatred of Jews than one of the thousands of houses around the world operated by the Chabad Lubavitch movement for which Holtzberg and his wife served as emissaries.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Local Jewish Community Reacts to India's Attack ABC 13 - TX, Friday, November 28, 2008
		The Orthodox Jewish Community here in Houston is mourning the couple's death but says this won't end their mission... "There are no words that can deliver comfort to someone. A person needs to grieve and I think that's where the community is right now. We're in a moment of grieving," said Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff with the Lubavitch Center.
		Chabad Lubavitch Center Regional Hdqts. – Houston, TX         Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Chabad’s Happy Warriors Don’t Surrender The Jewish Week - NY, Tuesday, November 25, 2008
		I never met Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg or Rebbetzin Rivkah Holtzberg, martyrs of the Mumbai massacre, but I met more than a thousand of their spiritual brothers and sisters, the shluchim and shluchot, the rebbe’s emissaries, and here’s what they always told me when the situation was darkest. Chabad doesn’t quit... Chabad did what they had to do when the rebbe died and they’ll do the same now... Chabad will not abandon Mumbai. The Holtzbergs, never to be forgotten, will be replaced in the trenches, as soldiers always will.
		Chabad Mumbai – Mumbai, India
		Pictures of the Day: Rabbis Unite The Wall Street Journal - NY, Monday, November 24, 2008
		Rabbis posed for a group picture Sunday at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York. More than 3,000 rabbis from 72 countries attended the event.
		הכינוס השנתי של פעילי חב"ד: בסימן המשבר הכלכלי Haaretz - Israel, Sunday, November 23, 2008
		שלושת אלפים פעילי תנועת חב"ד בעולם מתכנסים הערב בניו יורק למיפגש השנתי שלהם המתקיים ברציפות זו השנה ה-25. הפעילים, שבעגה המיוחדת של חסידות ליובביץ נקראים "שלוחים", הגיעו לכנס מ-72 ארצות בהן: סין, וייטנאם, תאילנד, קונגו וסיביר. קבוצה גדולה של שלוחים הגיעה גם מישראל. הכנס מתקיים הערב באולם הנוסעים הענק של מסוף מזח 94 במנהטן - מקום הנושא משמעות סמלית מיוחדת לחסידות ליובביץ. ב-1940 ירד מאנייה שעגנה במזח זה, רבי יוסף יצחק שניאורסון שהצליח להימלט מפולין הכבושה בידי הנאצים.
		Prague's Jewish Revival Ynet - Israel, Sunday, November 23, 2008
		The institute is the brainchild of Rabbi Manis Barash, Chabad's emissary in the city. "Everybody knows the story about the Golem from Prague and have heard of the Maharal, but not everybody is familiar with his teachings and writings," Barash explained. "For many years now we've been thinking about establishing an institute that would bring back to life the Maharal and the other great Torah scholars who lived and worked in Prague. "This year, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Maharal's death, we finally realized this idea."
		Chabad of Prague – Praha 1, Czech Republic
		3,000 Rabbis from 72 Countries at International Conference Reuters, Sunday, November 23, 2008
		Rabbis from the Judaism's Chabad-Lubavitch movement pose for a group photo in New York November 23, 2008. More than 3,000 rabbis from 72 countries are meeting at an annual international conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries.
		Using Break for Service The Hullabaloo Online - LA, Friday, November 21, 2008
		Tulane students will have many opportunities to participate in alternative winter break programs this year. One such program, sponsored by Chabad through a partnership with the Jewish National Fund, allows students to travel to Israel for a week and a half to volunteer... According to Chabad Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, they ran one of the first Alternative Winter Break programs in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Chabad has partnered with the Jewish National Fund to send volunteers to distressed communities around the world, from Argentina to Israel.
		Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center – New Orleans, LA
		Chabad’s Towson Debut Baltimore Jewish Times - MA, Friday, November 21, 2008
		Last July, Rabbi Mendy and Sheiny Rivkin took posts as the new Chabad shluchim, or emissaries, at Towson University. Their goal, they say, is to give students “whatever Judaism we can.” ...Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Maryland, said the decision to find a Chabad couple for Towson came as the university’s population grew... “We felt at this point it was justified to have a Chabad presence,” said Rabbi Kaplan.
		Chabad Center and Lubavitch of Maryland – Baltimore, MD         Chabad-Lubavitch of Towson – Towson, MD
		Rabbis Pray at the Gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Reuters, Friday, November 21, 2008
		Rabbis pray at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.Schneerson, in the Queens borough of New York, November 21, 2008. Schneerson, one of the best-known leaders in the Jewish world, was the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Nearly 3,000 rabbis from around the world are in New York for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.
		Rabbis Gather At Jewish Leader's Grave NY 1, Friday, November 21, 2008
		Thousands of rabbis from around the world gathered in New York Friday to remember their spiritual leader. The 3,000 emissaries held their 25th Conference at Manhattan's Pier 94, the site where their spiritual leader Grand Rebbe Menachem Schneerson arrived from Europe nearly 70 years ago.