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Israeli Burial Prepared for Mumbai Victims as Son Turns 2

2008_11_moshe.jpgThe young son of the Brooklyn rabbi and his wife who were killed in the terror attacks in Mumbai celebrated a tearful second birthday yesterday. A community leader described the scene as Moshe, the orphaned son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, was watched over by his maternal grandparents, "He had been crying. He is too small, you see, and all this must be affecting him so much." Indian officials had not yet sent the couples' bodies to be buried in the Holy Land because they are performing an autopsy on them--something prohibited by Jewish law. Today India's top security official resigned amidst growing questions around the nation's vulnerability to this week's attacks.

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  • tsol

    Many of the dead (especially the Israeli victims) were tortured prior to being murdered. What was done to them and how they died needs to be examined and remembered.

  • A23

    Pretty sad story.

    If autopsies are forbidden by jewish law, why bother doing one? Are they autopsying all 200 victims to determine cause of death?

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