Mumbai, India – Cries Fill Local Synagogue at Funeral Service of Chabad House Terror Victims

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    Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg is held by his grandmother Yehudit Rosenberg as grandfather Shimon Rosenberg looks on during a condolence prayer meeting in a synagogue

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    Mumbai, India – About 100 odd Jews gathered for a funeral service for the Jewish terror victims held in one of the largest synagogues in Mumbai this morning.

    Rivka Holtzberg’s father gave a tearful eulogy for his daughter and her husband, and praised Sandra, the nanny of his grandson, for saving the boy’s life.

    “With great resourcefulness Sandra saved the life of my grandson. Had she not [done this] he surely would have been murdered,” Shimon Rosenberg told more than the hundred family members and relatives of the victims, as well as members of the local Jewish community who also attended the service.

    The Israeli ambassador to India, Mark Sofer, also spoke during the event.

    “The state of Israel will not sit quietly while Israelis and Jews are massacred just because they are Jews,” he said. “We will continue to work with India and with other countries in the world in order to prevent these kind of events from happening in the future.”
    “This is a terrible day for India, for Israel, and for the Jewish people, and most importantly, for the families of those who were murdered,” Sofer continued. “This is not the time to think about why the international community is not doing enough, or why people get to this level of cruelty. This is the time to think only of the family.”

    Meanwhile the two-year-old Moshe, dressed in a bright green T-shirt and blue shorts, was carried into the synagogue to attend the prayer of his parents.

    Holding a ball in hand, Moshe who was orphaned on the day of his birthday kept looking around, probably wanting to see his parents even as his caretaker picked him up in his arms.
    Standing right next to him was his grand-parents who had come all the way from America as soon as they heard about the blast.

    As the prayers started, Moshe could be seen getting fidgety and ended up crying which he stopped only after he was allowed to play.

    As the synagogue echoed with the prayers, sobbing could be heard from all who had come for the prayer meeting. While the ladies present wiped their tears off, men could be seen trying best to hold back their tears.

    “We found the child on the second floor. We had initially thought he was sleeping on the fifth,” said the caretaker of Moshe, who was rescued in a dramatic fashion by the cook of the house, Sandra Samuel (44). Samuel had literally pulled off a coup when she, hiding inside one of the rooms after having slammed the door on a terrorist’s face, rushed to the second floor after hearing Moshe yelling out her name continuously.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    wow what a story a goyte should save a yiddish kid like that..i sill cant belive this whole india story…i hope im just dreaming and i wake up soon..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    well its time for u to wake up!!!!! CHULEM NISHT do something!!!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    5 days latter – i cant stop crying.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    to # 1
    i think goyte is not a very polite term for someone that risked her life to save that of a precious jewish neshoma
    just my opinion
    but i think a more sensitive term is needed

    heartbroken
    heartbroken
    15 years ago

    My heart breaks for Moshelle….he is the symbol of this unimaginable tradegy,a two year rescued from the carnage and left orphened and doesn’t have a sibling or another family member that he knows alive….I don’t think one could think of a worse case senario.
    May the Avi Yesomim look after Moshelle in the best possible way.

    ezras nashim
    ezras nashim
    15 years ago

    Referring to a good person as a non-Jew, as in “can you believe a non-Jew would do such a good thing?” is pure am haratzus. Un-thinking Yidden who are surprised when aino Yehudim are heroic fail to understand that the jams we get in as an “am” are of our own doing. We DON’T have the zchusim — and it’s the Aibishter using the aino Yehudim to potch us or not potch us. (Precisely Yitzchok’s brocha to his sons, that when one’s up the other’s down.)

    Furthermore, if you look at others without seeing their tzelem Elokim and the neshama that the Aibishter gave to mankind, your vision is corrupted and you are an embarrassment to am Yisroel.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    yes it is the right think the baby doesnt know anyone just the nani so he feels comftrble woth here if not he cries got it dont act like a dum guy

    r u serious
    r u serious
    15 years ago

    I now realize how bad it is to have internet especially blackberry. I have followed this story minute by minute since thursday and I am emotional wiped out from the whole thing. I know the family is really suffering and we should be at one with them, but I am a complete idiot for over internet newsing myself. I can’t sleep and feel sick. I am doing nobody a favor with all the details I have in my head. For me this is worse than 9-11 because I didn’t have internet then. Anybody feel the same ?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Who says she is a Goyte? For all you know she is Jewish! She was Moseres Nefesh to save a Jewish child, that is quite a Zechus.

    Regarding the comments regarding the Israeli flag, one must remember that we are in Galus today – even in Israel. A state funeral is a political statement, not a religious statement.

    WakeUp
    WakeUp
    15 years ago

    The name “Moshe” was first given in the Torah… because he was PULLED and saved from the Water… By a non-jewish woman…

    Well now the name shows this again…
    He was PULLED and saved …From the YM”S!.. By a non-jewish woman…

    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    i have not slept in days-every time i see moshele;s picture i begin to cry–

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I don’t know if we can keep up with all this, the tears from this pure neshomele that keeps on calling for mommy, is tearing every single person on this earth apart, Ribono shel olam, AD MUSAI?