Terror in Mumbai
Last week's terror attacks in Mumbai continue to reverberate with fond memories, mourning, questioning and soul-searching. Here's a round-up of the latest reports and commentaries:
- At a synagogue in Mumbai, the 2- year old orphan who lost his parents at the Chabad House cries out for them.
- Chabad' s pointman in Washington talked to the terrorists holed up in Mumbai.
- An Israeli professor remembers the Holtzberg's last Shabbat in Mumbai.
- The Failed Messiah plays a Chabad conference call with its emissaries around the world.
- The BBC broadcasts video of Rabbi Holtzberg with his son, recorded just weeks before he was struck down.
- Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz recalls the Holtzberg's life of purpose.
- The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's India director tells NPR of the shock to the local Jewish community.
- For more on the Jews of India, see JTA's story from earlier this year about how Indian Jews are staying put these days.
- The Israeli-based family of one of the Mumbai victims rejects an official Israeli memorial because they don't believe in the state.
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What happened to the Holtzbergs and the others in Mumbai Chabad House was just the latest example of the kind of anti-Semitic murder that has plagued the world for centuries.
It was a pogrom.
It’s been going on so long, you’d think we’d have gotten used to it by now.
But whether it rides on horseback and speaks Russian, wears a swastika or a kafiya, it’s all the same beast, and we should recognize that.
One reason it keeps happening is the world’s uncanny ability to compartmentalize each case and make itself believe each is an isolated incident and therefore nothing to worry about.
I think they’re wrong, and I, for one, am plenty worried.
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John Hanks
12/01/08 07:12 PM
Nothing should be shocking about torture. It is a sad fact of war and the fanaticism it breeds. This particular torture was probably done to inflame the Israeli public so it will exact some sort of revenge. Needless to say, after all these years of perpetual war and cruelty, the revenge won’t prove anything.