Mumbai Chabad getting new emissaries
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The Chabad center in Mumbai will have its first full-time rabbi since the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city.
Rabbi Chanoch and Leiky Gechtman will be the first permanently stationed emissaries at the Chabad outreach center since Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg were killed along with four visitors in the November 2008 attacks on several Mumbai sites. More than 170 people were killed.
The Gechtmans, Israelis in their 20s, are expected to begin their work in Mumbai this summer. The father of Gavriel Holtzberg suggested them for the post. The couple had spent time in Mumbai with the Holtzbergs, and Chanoch Gechtman studied rabbinic law with Gavriel Holtzberg. — jta
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