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Mourning Mumbai

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper
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Show of solidarity: Jews gathered at Congregation B’nai Jacob on Ninth Street in Park Slope to mourn two Hasidic Jews who were murdered in the terror attacks earlier this month in Mumbai, India.

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Jews from around the borough gathered in Park Slope last night to mourn a Crown Heights rabbi and his wife — two “generals” in the Hasidic Jewish community — who were killed in the Mumbai terror attacks last week.

Dozens attended the memorial service at Congregation B’nai Jacob on Ninth Street, lighting candles in somber tribute to all 180-plus victims of the Nov. 28-29 attack, but special attention was paid to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah Holtzberg, 28, who ran Mumbai’s Chabad-Lubavitch center.

A babysitter rescued their 2-year-old son, Moshe, from the brutal assault.

Rabbi Shimon Hecht said he organized the service to grieve the loss of “two five-star generals” in the Hasidic community, who had moved to India to “spread the word of Judaism to lost souls and travelers.”

“The Jewish community feels their pain, and the way we express the pain is by letting the family know how strongly we feel for them,” he said.

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