Colaba

MUMBAI, India – It was the second candle of Hanukka. We lit, along with Israelis and others who somehow find their way to Chabad houses worldwide.…

The narrow lane of Hormusji St. was transformed overnight from an obscure Colaba neighborhood, dotted with local shops and low-rise apartments, to a…

A year has passed, but the walls of Mumbai's Chabad House are still riddled with bullets - a solemn reminder of the carnage that claimed six lives,…

Some 2,000 Chabad emissaries and leaders, politicians, rabbis and businessmen are expected to attend a memorial service on Wednesday at Kfar Chabad…

Cover story in Issue 19, January 5, 2009 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. "Wake up, Mumbai! And stay awake!"…

Like many others with India connections, for much of the last few days I have been bolted to my computer screen, trying to follow and absorb every…

It is a bitter historical irony that while Jews never suffered anti-Semitism throughout a long sojourn in India, the terrorists in their devastating…

Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivka, 28, arrived in Mumbai six years ago as official emissaries [shluchim] of Chabad. Gavriel, who was…

Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivka, 26, arrived in Mumbai six years ago as official emissaries of Chabad. Gavriel, who was born in…

Indian commandos and police were evacuating civilians and cordoning off the area apparently in preparation to storm the Chabad House in Mumbai India,…

In the days when the sun never set on the British Empire and Pax Britannia ruled the waves, the great port city of Bombay rose like a light in the…