World ROUNDUP 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. — 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 — 24 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:' — 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 — 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 — 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 —