Chabad House murders

The terrorists storm a synagogue and kill the Rabbi, his wife and some visitors. In India. Not a nation where there can be even a suggestion that there is any significant Jewish population. Those killed at the Chabad centre were killed because they were Jews. It seems almost beyond belief that in 2008 and Jews would be killed because they are Jews -- but as a post earlier this week noted,

“The bitch that bore him is on heat again”, as Brecht has his closing speaker say about Hitler at the curtain of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The next nightmare will not take the same shape or form, but it will be sure to emit the same plain and unmistakable warnings....

Oddly, it seems the nightmare takes roughly the same form everytime "Mort au juif !"


Mumbai Jewish Center Hostages Die; 200 Others Freed (Update3)

By Vipin Nair, Chitra Somayaji and Anil Varma

Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Five hostages and two terrorists died at a Jewish center in Mumbai that was stormed by Indian commandos, who also freed more than 200 people from the city’s five-star Oberoi-Trident hotel, officials said.

“There were two gunmen and five hostages” lying dead in Nariman House, site of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center, Motti Bukchin, a spokesman for the Israeli emergency-response organization Zaka, said today in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. A New York-raised orthodox rabbi and his wife were killed. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivka, 28, were confirmed dead in the attacks, the movement said on its Web site.