L.A. remembers victims of Mumbai
As Jews in Los Angeles today mourned a slain couple who had run a Mumbai Jewish center besieged by terrorists, arrangements were under way to move the former emissaries' 2-year-old son Moshe to Israel, where he will live with the nanny who rescued him and his maternal grandparents.
About 1,000 people showed up for a memorial at the West Coast headquarters of the ultra-Orthordox Chabad organization in Westwood, closing a stretch of Gayley Avenue as they paid tribute to Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, and vowed to remain steadfast in the face of the attacks.
Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, executive director of West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch, addressed his remarks directly to the terrorists, saying, "You thought you would do us in, but...we the Jewish people, we who believe in light...we shall continue."
To sustained applause, Marshall Grossman, the Chabad house chairman, said of the terrorists: "May they burn in hell."
Moshe's grandparents are affiliated with the world's largest Jewish orphanage, Migdal Ohr, which serves 6,500 orphaned and disadvantaged children in northern Israel, a spokesman said.
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--Jason Song and Ted Rohrlich
Photo: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times
