There is a touching memorial on the brilliant Chabad website to Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were killed in the terrorist attack in Mumbai last year:
“In the course of their short lives, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, Chabad emissaries in Mumbai, India, radiated love, kindness and inspiration to their surroundings. With their cruel murder by forces of darkness, their light exploded into a million points of light that now illuminate across the globe.”
I recommend you visit the memorial page, and watch the inspiring video.
The way this dreadful anti semetic attack was played down in our media was appalling. Still I suppose we are lucky it wasn’t portrayed as Israels fault, or perhaps it was somewhere?
When Jon Snow reported on it he described the killers as “practitioners”, rather than what they are – Islamic terrorists.
Snow also, astonishingly, reported that the Mumbai terrorists showed a “wanton disregard for race or creed” when the exact opposite was the case. They deliberately and carefully targeted Jews, Americans and Britons. Snow also pretends that “nobody gets injured” by the Kassam rockets which kill Israelis.
My respect goes out to those who follow the example of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg.
Chas did you recommend a book about Lubavitch in a past article? What was it?
Yes it is called The Rebbe’s Army, I mentioned it here.
This might interest you http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3807625,00.html