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Photographer Visually Compares Mumbai With New York City

Photographer Visually Compares Mumbai With New York City
      

Photographer Nisha Sondhe visually documented similar scenes from Mumbai and New York City for a side-by-side comparison project. She describes it as "a photographic study of how similar daily life is in both New York City and Bombay." Click through for a peek, and you can check out more of her work right here. [via Boing Boing] more ›

Police Keep Simulating "Mumbai-style" Attacks on New York

Police Keep Simulating "Mumbai-style" Attacks on New York

In 2008 terrorists executed a coordinated attack across Mumbai over a three-day period which lead many New Yorkers to wonder 'what if they were to try a similar attack here?' As far as the NYPD is concerned, they already have. Since the Mumbai attack the NYPD has run eight large-scale tabletop simulations of similar attacks on the the Big Apple—and they've learned some interesting strategies while doing them. And now so can you! more ›

New York's Mumbai Attack Victims Suing Pakistan Intelligence

New York's Mumbai Attack Victims Suing Pakistan Intelligence

The relatives of two New Yorkers who were killed in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai are suing Pakistan's intelligence agency and Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, whom they blame for the attacks. Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his pregnant wife, Rivka, and their son were attacked at the Chabad Lubavitch center in Mumbai. Their son was rescued by a nanny, but the rabbi, his wife and their unborn child were all killed. Their son now lives in Israel with his grandfather, who filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court. more ›

After Terrorist Attack, Immigration Trouble For Israeli Mom

After Terrorist Attack, Immigration Trouble For Israeli Mom

An Israeli woman whose husband was killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks is having trouble visiting her eight kids in Brooklyn due to immigration woes. On Feb. 5, US Customs and Border Protection agents at Kennedy Airport stopped 37-year-old Frumet Teitelbaum and said she had overused her visitor's visa by regularly traveling from her home in Israel to see her kids, who are staying with her late husband's family in Borough Park. more ›

Brave Nanny Explains How She Saved Tot in Mumbai

Brave Nanny Explains How She Saved Tot in Mumbai

The Indian nanny who saved the toddler of a Brooklyn couple in Mumbai gives her first interview to the Daily News. During last week's terror attacks, Sandra Samuel says that little Moshe Holtzberg, just shy of his second birthday, was covered in blood and next to his mother's body when she found him. more ›

Mourners Remember Jewish Mumbai Terror Victims

Mourners Remember Jewish Mumbai Terror Victims

Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg cried out for his parents during a memorial service for them and others killed at a Jewish Center in Mumbai, India last week. Brooklyn couple Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who had moved to Mumbai to run the Chabad House in 2003, died in the terror attacks while little Moshe, reportedly found next to his parents' bodies, was spirited out by his Indian nanny. more ›

Israeli Burial Prepared for Mumbai Victims as Son Turns 2

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. more ›

Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife Killed in Mumbai Terror Attacks

Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife Killed in Mumbai Terror Attacks

After Indian commandoes stormed a Chabad-Jewish Center in Mumbai, where some of the workers had been taken hostage, the NY Times reports, "In the end, six of the hostages were killed, including the Brooklyn couple who operated the center." more ›

Mumbai Hostages Include Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife

Mumbai Hostages Include Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife

Yesterday, it was reported that Brooklyn Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka (pictured, left) "are among the westerners taken hostage at the Mumbai headquarters of the New York-based outreach group Chabad Lubavitch" during Wednesday's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Terrorist gunmen had entered the Chabad house, and reportedly took a number of people hostage. Commandoes just stormed the building, and CNN-IBN reports that "5 hostages killed at Mumbai Jewish center." (More details on the raid at the Times of India.) more ›

Over 100 Dead in Mumbai Terror Attacks

Over 100 Dead in Mumbai Terror Attacks

Yesterday, a series of coordinated terror attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai left over 100 dead and hundreds injured. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the attacks probably had "external linkages," which the NY Times reports is the "first official indication that the authorities were likely to blame outsiders." The attackers have taken hostages, many of them foreign tourists; some have been released. more ›

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