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Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg were remembered as warm, welcoming hosts to their Chabad center in Mumbai.
Remembering Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg: Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg were remembered as warm, welcoming hosts to their Chabad center in Mumbai. (Chabad.org) Read more »

Rebbe’s army soldiers on

By Sue Fishkoff · November 30, 2008

In the wake of last week's tragedy in Mumbai, the author of the 2003 book "The Rebbe's Army" reflects on the worldwide network of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim -- more than 7,000 men and women who devote their lives to doing Jewish outreach in more than 73 countries. Read more »

Obama taps national security team

By Ron Kampeas · December 1, 2008

Barack Obama in naming his national security team said his priorities include Israeli-Palestinian peace and preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Read more »

Mumbai memorial held for Jewish victims

December 1, 2008

A memorial service for the Jewish victims of the Mumbai terrorist attack was held in the Indian city. Read more »

Celebration, sadness at opening of Berlin mikvah

By Toby Axelrod · November 30, 2008

The dedication of a new mikvah at the Chabad center in Berlin was tinged with sadness as participants remembered two Chabad emissaries killed last week in the Mumbai terror attacks. Read more »

Woman making aliyah among Mumbai victims

November 30, 2008

A woman scheduled to make aliyah was among those killed in the terror attack on Mumbai's Chabad center. Read more »

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More than once, Hillary Clinton’s been ahead of her critics. Read Blog »

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What Americans don’t get about Israeli Jews. Read Blog »

The Fundermentalist

Chicago federation steps up with $93,000 in relief for local agencies and food pantries

The Chicago federation is stepping up with $93,000 in emergency funding for its local kosher food pantries… Read Blog »

Photos

Blood stains the floor of the Chabad center in Mumbai following a failed rescue operation by Indian commandos on Nov. 28, 2008. Among those killed in the terror attack there were the center's directors, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah. (ZAKA / BPH Images) At Agora International in Tunis, Rym Bedoui (left) manufactures kosher halva for export. Bedoui earned her MBA at Baruch College in New York. The product is certified by a rabbi who comes several times a year from Israel. (Jerry Sorkin) Jeffrey Katzenberg, left, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock after leaving the Yad Vashem Children's Memorial on Nov 24, 2008. The producer and actors were in Israel for the nation's premiere of their film 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.' (Yad Vashem / BPH Images) One of more than 1,000-English speaking immigrants attend a job fair co-sponsored by the Jewish Agency at the Orthodox Union of America's convention held in Jerusalem on Nov, 25, 2008. (Brian Hendler) Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal pro-Israel lobby J Street, Leslie Cagan of the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice, and Rokhl Kafrissen of Jewish Currents magazine, address a gathering of several hundred Jewish anti-war activists organized by Rabbi Arthur Waskow and the Workmen's Circle at Central Synagogue in New York City on November 23, 2008. (Daniel Sieradski) Ze'ev Bielski, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, speaks at the opening of the organization's Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 2008. At left is the board's chairman, Richard Pearlstone. (Brian Hendler) Israeli President Shimon Peres lays a weath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abby. (Amos Ben Gershon, GPO) Reuven Firestone, right, co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, shows the Torah to visiting scholars of Islam. The center is one of several initiatives to bring Jews and Muslims together. (USC Center for Religion & Civic Culture) Participants are on the move in the first Race for the Cure breast cancer awareness event in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Oct. 25, 2008. The event was sponsored by JDC-Komen's Women Health Empowerment. (Itai Shamir / JDC) Election pamphlets cover a sidewalk in Mea Shearim, a fervently Orthodox section of Jerusalem, on Nov. 11, 2008, when the city's voters choose a new mayor. (Brian Hendler)

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  • Blood stains the floor of the Chabad center in Mumbai following a failed rescue operation by Indian commandos on Nov. 28, 2008. Among those killed in the terror attack there were the center's directors, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah.
  • At Agora International in Tunis, Rym Bedoui (left) manufactures kosher halva for export. Bedoui earned her MBA at Baruch College in New York. The product is certified by a rabbi who comes several times a year from Israel.
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg, left, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock after leaving the Yad Vashem Children's Memorial on Nov 24, 2008. The producer and actors were in Israel for the nation's premiere of their film 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.'
  • One of more than 1,000-English speaking immigrants attend a job fair co-sponsored by the Jewish Agency at the Orthodox Union of America's convention held in Jerusalem on Nov, 25, 2008.
  • Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal pro-Israel lobby J Street, Leslie Cagan of the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice, and Rokhl Kafrissen of Jewish Currents magazine, address a gathering of several hundred Jewish anti-war activists organized by Rabbi Arthur Waskow and the Workmen's Circle at Central Synagogue in New York City on November 23, 2008.
  • Ze'ev Bielski, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, speaks at the opening of the organization's Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 2008. At left is the board's chairman, Richard Pearlstone.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres lays a weath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abby.
  • Reuven Firestone, right, co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, shows the Torah to visiting scholars of Islam. The center is one of several initiatives to bring Jews and Muslims together.
  • Participants are on the move in the first Race for the Cure breast cancer awareness event in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Oct. 25, 2008. The event was sponsored by JDC-Komen's Women Health Empowerment.
  • Election pamphlets cover a sidewalk in Mea Shearim, a fervently Orthodox section of Jerusalem, on Nov. 11, 2008, when the city's voters choose a new mayor.
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