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New rabbi arrives at terror-ravaged Mumbai Chabad house
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Jewish World 

MUMBAI - The new head of Mumbai's ravaged Chabad House arrived to begin his duties, vowing to restore the facility devastated by gunmen 10 days earlier.

The Chabad House was one of several places captured by suspected Islamic gunmen in the November 26-29 attacks. A commando assault ended the two-day siege, but all six people inside the building, including Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, were killed.

"We are staying at the same center and will rebuild it even nicer than it was," said Rabbi Dov Goldberg, an Israeli sent by the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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Goldberg said that while it was very difficult for him to replace Holtzberg, whom he had worked under for a while in India, he was determined to carry out his mission.

"We will try and open it as soon as possible," Goldberg told The Associated Press. "Meanwhile, we will have it in a temporary place. Our activities will not stop even for one second."

The building served as a spiritual oasis for Mumbai's small Jewish community, traveling Jewish backpackers and visiting businessmen, providing a synagogue and kosher food.

Goldberg said the center, which was ravaged by dozens of explosions during the commando assault, would be refurbished and that it would have more security.

"We will do all that's necessary for security and for safety," he said.

Goldberg was sent from New York, where the movement has its headquarters, together with his wife and daughter, he said.

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