In Boston, events mourn Chabad victims

There are at least two dozen Chabad centers in Greater Boston, and several of them are planning events this week to mourn the terrorist attacks that last week killed six at the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai. And a local Chabad rabbi, from Quincy, has flown to Israel to be at the funeral of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.
These are among the local events planned to memorialize the victims of the violence in Mumbai:
•At 10 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday), 23 local Chabad rabbis, joined by the leaders of multiple Jewish community organizations, are planning to gather on the steps of the State House for a brief event. "This is our show of support and unity and resolve, to assure our friends and family that we are forging on,'' said Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz of the Chabad Chai Center in Brookline.
• At 6 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday), Yeshiva Chabad of Central Massachusetts will hold a memorial service at 22 Newton Avenue in Worcester.
• At 7:30 pm tomorrow (Tuesday), Chabad of the North Shore will hold a memorial service at 44 Burrill Street in Swamspcott.
• At 7:45 pm tomorrow (Tuesday), there is a memorial service at the Chabad at Chestnut Hill at 163 Bellingham Rd.
• At 1 p.m. Wednesday, the Interfaith Chaplaincy at Brandeis will hold a rally in front of the Goldfarb library on campus. Brandeis Chabad officials, as well as leaders of other campus faith groups, will participate.
• At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Chabad Russian Center of Boston will hold a memorial service at Shaloh House Jewish Day School, located at 29 Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton.
Matt Collette talked with local Chabad leaders for a story in today's paper.
Chabad is posting updates about the killings here.
(Photo above, by Uriel Sinai/Getty, shows Shimon Rosenberg (center) praying during a memorial ceremony today for his daughter Rivka and her husband Gavriel Holtzberg at the Keneseth Eliyahoo synagogue in Mumbai.)
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This is so sad. Why can't all of us just get along? I am not Jewish but I feel the pain regardless like any normal human being should. How could any human being do this to another human being?
God help us all!!
RIP, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. The world is a better place because of your good works.
Many, many people will miss you. May your names and deeds live on.
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