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Israeli Burial Prepared for Mumbai Victims as Son Turns 2
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Billy Parker
Published Nov 30, 2008
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The 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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