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Rivkah and Rabbi Holtzberg
American Spied For Barbarians
Mumbai/JTA A U.S. citizen of Pakistan
origin allegedly posed as a Jew in order to
enter the Mumbai Chabad center and pre-
pare for last year's attack.
David Coleman Headley, 49, was arrested
last month in Chicago as he tried to make
his way to Pakistan via Philadelphia. U.S.
and Indian authorities have been investigat-
ing Headley. Over the weekend, the Indian
Nation Investigating Agency raided several
places in Mumbai in search of evidence.
Indian security sources believe Headley
cased the Chabad center, known as the
Nariman House, for the Pakistani terror
group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is believed to
be responsible for the attacks.
Indian investigators found that Headley
visited all 10 Mumbai locations that were
attacked last November, according to the
Chinese news agency Xinhua. The news
agency reported that Headley visited the
Mumbai Chabad in July 2008. When he was
arrested last month in the United States, he
had a book in his possession titled To Pray as
a Jew, the Calcutta Telegraph reported.
Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his
wife, Rivkah, were among the six victims
viciously tortured and killed at the Nariman
House. A total of 179 people were killed in
the Mumbai terror attacks, which occurred
over a three-day period.
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Palestinians May Declare State
Ramallah/JTA The Palestinians plan to
ask the United Nations Security Council to
recognize an independent state, according to
a senior Palestinian official.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians' chief nego-
tiator, told several media outlets over the
weekend that the Palestinians would seek
approval for a state along the 1967 border
lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
Arab states, Russia and U.N. Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon reportedly have
expressed support for the plan, Erekat said,
according to Ha'aretz.
Erekat did not say when the Palestinians
would go to the council with the plan. "When
we are ready, we will go',' he told Reuters.
Erekat told Israel's Army Radio that "We're
fed up with your time wasting. We don't
believe that you really want a two-state solu-
tion:'
The Palestinians have refused a return
to the negotiating table until Israel stops
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November 19 • 2009
Mitzvah Day
Choose your mitzvah and share your
day on Friday, Dec. 25, when the Jewish
Community Relations Council and the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
join together to present Mitzvah Day.
Volunteers of all ages can sign up for
the annual event and participate in doz-
ens of social service projects and volun-
teer activities throughout Metro Detroit.
Families with children, teens, young
adults and seniors can donate a few
hours of their time to participate in a
choice of activities, including visits to
older adults in nursing care facilities,
preparing and serving holiday meals,
and delivering toys and gifts to families
in need. All volunteer activities will con-
clude by early afternoon.
Volunteers will meet in the morning
at the Jimmy Prentis Morris building of
the Jewish Community Center, 15110 W.
10 Mile, in Oak Park. Following a light
breakfast and brief orientation, they will
depart for their volunteer project. Mitzvah
Day participants may also take part in
a non-perishable food drive by bring-
ing donations to the Oak Park JCC when
they report to volunteer duty on Dec. 25.
Optional carpools have been arranged to
facilitate transportation to various sites.
Mitzvah Day event chairs are Micki
all building in the West Bank. Israel under
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
limited, but not halted, building in the settle-
ments.
The Five Books Of Costco
New York/JTA The retail giant Costco will
sell a special edition of the Torah.
The Illustrated Torah, published by Gefen
Publishing House of Jerusalem in conjunc-
tion with The Studio in Old Jaffa and the
Jewish Publication Society of New York, will
be on sale starting later this month at select
stores throughout the United States.
"Because many Jewish and Christian con-
sumers do not have access to a local Jewish
bookstore or even a synagogue Judaica shop,
having The Illustrated Torah at Costco offers
a much broader opportunity for this title
to be picked up," said Neal Warnick of the
Seattle-based Wholesale Solutions, which
brokered the deal. "It deserves to be in
Costco. They know their membership base
and have therefore chosen it to reach those
consumers who otherwise may not have the
opportunity to consider it for purchase"
Site captains who will coordinate the volunteering at local soup kitchens, nursing
homes and other sites that will be filled with Jewish volunteers on Friday, Dec. 25,
meet at Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield on Nov. 12 with Mitzvah Day
event co-chairs Micki Grossman and Stephanie Rosenbaum. People interested in
volunteering can still register at: jewishdetroit.org/mitzvanday.
Grossman and Stephanie Rosenbaum.
More than 800 volunteers are
expected to show the strength of our
community by taking part in Mitzvah
Day 2009. Volunteers should sign up on
Federation's Web site, www.jewishde-
troit.org/mitzvanday.
No volunteer applications can be
taken by phone. The reservation
deadline is Monday, Dec. 9. Volunteer
reservations are filled on a first-come,
first-served basis. For more information,
call Michael Daitch at the Council office,
(248) 642-5393.
daughter of entrepreneur and author Peter
Kash of New York, raised money to buy 50
new bicycles and acquired 50 used ones.
The bicycles were distributed Sunday at the
Jewish Agency's Mevaseret Zion absorption
center.
reach an understanding': Jerusalem Mayor
Nir Barkat said Sunday at the factory's dedi-
cation ceremony.
"I am a staunch supporter of the status
quo and co-existence in the capital. Intel
has been operating in Jerusalem for the past
24 years under the same format': said the
mayor."' will continue working for the com-
pany's success and expansion, and towards
bringing additional high-tech companies to
the capital:'
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Bikes To Ethiopian Israelis
New York/JTA A bat mitzvah donated her
gift money to buy bicycles for 100 Israeli-
Ethiopian children. Shantal Kash, 12, the
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Violent Orthodox Protest Intel
Jerusalem/JTA Fervently Orthodox Jews
protested the Saturday operation of Intel's
Jerusalem computer chip plant. Up to 2,000
protesters demonstrated Saturday in front of
the factory.
The demonstrators attacked journalists
covering the protest, as well as Jerusalem
Deputy Mayor Yitzhak Pindrus, of the fer-
vently Orthodox United Torah Judaism party,
whom they accuse of selling out to the secu-
lar establishment.
The company's security guards used pep-
per spray against some of the protesters, who
broke through barbed wire fences installed
to deter them.The new plant, which employs
150 people, opened last Friday ahead of a
dedication ceremony on Sunday.
"This plant will operate in accordance
with our business needs and the law, includ-
ing on Saturdays': Intel spokesman Koby
Bahar told Ha'aretz.
"I condemn the acts of violence, which
will achieve nothing, and hope the sides
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Cantor: 'Remove Blinders'
Washington/JTA
The only Jewish
Republican in the U.S. Congress said
the Jewish community must speak out
louder against threats to Israel and the
Jewish people.
The community
needs to "remove the
blinders from our eyes,"
House Minority Whip
Eric Cantor, R-Va., said
in Washington at the
opening session of the
Jewish Federations of
Eric Cantor
North America's annual
General Assembly.
"Many men are pointing guns at
Israel, indeed at Jews, everywhere," he
said, but "too many Jews have become
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