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Chabad, family of Mumbai victims at odds over nanny's media interviews
By Anshel Pfeffer
Tags: Mumbai Chabad, Israel News 

Chabad members are keeping Indian caretaker Sandra Samuel in an undisclosed apartment in the north of Israel, where she is staying with Moshe Holtzberg, the 2-year-old son of Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, Chabad emissaries murdered in last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

Samuel, who spirited the child away from the city's Chabad House 12 hours after terrorists had taken it over, was granted special permission to enter Israel. It remains unclear how long she will be allowed to stay, but a family member said Thursday, "if necessary, we will keep her here for another few months."

Yehuda Donin, a relative of the Holtzbergs, said Samuel and Moshe are staying in a separate apartment, away from family members sitting shiva, the traditional seven-day mourning period, at Rivkah's parents' home in Afula. "The whole world wants to interview [Samuel], and it's important to let her rest," he said.
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Meanwhile, the family has decided that "it is important that the people of Israel know what happened there," and have therefore decided to grant interviews to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Channel 2 and CNN, which will be aired at the end of this week.

Sources at the Chabad movement in Israel, which until now has accompanied the family and organized last week's public funeral for the couple, expressed discomfort at family members' behavior. They said it was Rabbi David Grossman of Migdal Ha'emek, the brother-in-law of Rivkah Holtzberg's father, who sponsored Samuel's arrival in Israel, and who should determine which news outlets are given interviews.

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      1.   A Radical Proposal! 04:58  |  MIKE 05/12/08
      2.   G-d Bless that little one Moshe! 07:10  |  Big Sur 05/12/08
      3.   The whole world? 08:35  |  tucking fwit 05/12/08
      4.   I hope the media/public doesn`t exploit the nanny 10:07  |  Nathan 05/12/08
      5.   #3 TWIT 14:13  |  mike 05/12/08
      6.   Nanny and Moshe 14:28  |  nora 05/12/08
      7.   The truth is that the terrorists let the baby go!! 14:46  |  Moise 05/12/08
      8.   The first reports from Mumbai said she was the cook 14:47  |  Mirqa 05/12/08
      9.   What about the nany being a person with her own will 16:29  |  Nina 05/12/08
      10.   Reply to #8 First reports also said ... 16:32  |  Joe 05/12/08
      11.   coincidental name... Moshe 16:36  |  Joey 05/12/08
      12.   INTERVIEWS 17:13  |  SIMON 05/12/08
      13.   nanny 17:16  |  elliot 05/12/08
      14.   The whole world 18:25  |  Gilbert Simon MD 05/12/08
      15.   #5 mike of holon 19:42  |  usurper 05/12/08
      16.   Re:The truth is that he terrorists let the baby go!! 19:48  |  M Nathan 05/12/08
      17.   donate to Moishele`s care 19:59  |  family friend 05/12/08
      18.   #3 20:43  |  Observer 05/12/08
      19.   chosen 21:28  |  behi 05/12/08
      20.   #9 Observer 21:51  |  janet 05/12/08
      21.   chabad , nanny/s socalled 22:16  |  behi 05/12/08
      22.   straight talk ... three points 23:31  |  Ken Haase 05/12/08
      23.   Nanny 23:32  |  behi 05/12/08
      24.   Brave Sandra Samuel 09:55  |  yoel 06/12/08
      25.   #Mirqa tzitting in tzfat 10:44  |  Kate 06/12/08
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