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Orphaned son of Mumbai victims to lead Chabad emissaries in psalms

By JTA

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 12:20

Updated: NOVEMBER 9, 2015 12:21

Moshe Holtzberg, the orphaned son of the Chabad House directors in Mumbai, India, killed by terrorists in 2008, was scheduled to lead thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the recitation of psalms.

Moshe, who is nearly 9 and lives with his grandparents in Afula, was scheduled to lead the recitation on Sunday night in New York at a gala dinner concluding a week of programming as part of the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.

Moshe’s nanny, Sandra Samuels, escaped from the Nariman Chabad House carrying two-year-old Moshe in November 2008 after it came under siege. Four other Jewish victims were killed, including Moshe’s parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.

The attacks on several Mumbai sites over four days by an Islamist Pakistani group, including two hotels and the train station, left 166 dead and hundreds injured.

Samuels was given permanent residency status in Israel to be with Moshe after the attack.

“He is said to be a happy, healthy boy,” according to Chabad.org.

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