Oh... the humanity

UPDATE: Rabbi's wife was 6 months pregnant and 2 year old Moshe was beaten

"Emah" in English is "mommy"

The funeral

The Funeral

The mother was six months pregnant and the 2 year old boy was beaten (hat tip Cathy)

The Jewish mother murdered in the brutal Mumbai terror attacks last week was six month pregnant, her father revealed today at her funeral.

And Rivkah Holtzberg's two-year-old son, Moshe, may have been beaten by the militants, reports have claimed.

His back was covered in bruises consistent with abuse, the chairman of Zaka, Israel's ultraorthodox recovery service, told Sky News.

The Holtzbergs' bodies - hers wrapped in a shroud, his in a prayer shawl - rested on chairs on the dais where the eulogies and prayers were delivered.

There are already fears that Moshe witnessed his parents' murder after he was found by his nanny crying next to their bodies, covered in blood.

She dashed him to safety before commandos launched an attack on the Jewish house in which the terrorists were holding the family hostage last week.

In an emotional scene before the flight to Israel yesterday, Moshe repeatedly cried for his mother at a tearful memorial ceremony at a Mumbai synagogue. The scene was broadcast repeatedly on Israeli TV stations.

'You don't have a mother who will hug you and kiss you,' Rabbi Kotlarsky cried out during a eulogy that switched back and forth between Hebrew and English. But the community will take care of the boy, he vowed: 'You are the child of all of Israel.'

Wedding day 2002

The bloody scene inside the Mumbai house after the failed rescue attempt by commandos last week

 

Comments

[derak]

Oh how I am weeping, weeping.

There most certainly will be hell to pay for this egregious act. And should any of my fellow American citizens be confused (as they perpetually are) as to why, I shall send them here for a full explanation.

March on, India. Do what is right!

[EJO]

Dear Pamela;
Oh boy. I know you're just doing your job, But I wish you wouldn't have presented these gut wrenching photos. Or I wish I hadn't seen them.
That poor sweet little boy is breaking my heart. He is never going to realize how wonderful it is to have a mom, and dad who loves him.
These evil mother effing bastards. These vile, disgusting sons of bitches. These Muslim savages. I can't imagine how deranged, how cowardly, how bizarre a person has to be, has to think, to commit such flagrant brutality.
And I cannot begin to tell you how happy that makes me. Because I don't want to have that kind of mind. I don't want to be so screwed up, that I would think that this is a good thing to do to innocent people.
And my very fervent wish is that sweet little Moshe is too young to be able to remember any of this hell that he, and the others went through.
And now, with tears in my eyes, and sadness in my heart, I am going to close by saying: Viva Israel.
Sincerely;
EJO

[kobi]

pamela,
i know it tears you up. but thank you for this coverage. may H' strengthen and comfort all the mourners of zion and israel.

[kobi]

ps, update us on the fate of the perps. hopefully they will meet their Maker very shortly, and not in an easy way.

[PMarc]

It's almost impossible for any normal human being to wrap his or her mind around evil of this magnitude. May the Lord of the Universe be with little Moshe and with all the children of Abraham. God bless and save Israel.

[shmujew]

chabad lost its chance to really make their mark on the world and tell it like it is.....ISLAM is purloined and Radically twisted Judaism ....this is not a religion it is justification for murder rape kidnapping torture and thievery....these inhuman barbarian animals deserve nothing less than eradication from the face of the earth

[marc in calgary]

thank you for printing the pictures of what the msm refuses to publish.

... as others may note, as difficult as it is to view them.

and may justice prevail.

[kaps]

as we all look at the pictures of this beautiful little boy i know that the rage that is boiling over is indescribable.

our worthless, dangerous so-called leaders and the lying ghouls in the media are part of the problem.

a message to you D.C. idiots: say it. define it. call it what it is. these islamists are demonic pigscum roaches.

nuke the mother---ers.

[kobi]

pamela,

please let us know what is happening re finding the mamzers who did this and whom we can write to in order to expedite their capture or execution.

[sebjoeko]

This whole thing is utterly heartwrenching: these crimes cry out to God and civilization for justice.
It has become a moral impossibility for anyone to learn anything resembling the truth from any and all outlets of the media.
Within 48 hrs of this slaughter, representatives of the Pak govt were on air refusing to acknowledge even the most basic facts, worse, the 'oppressed/disenfranchised youth' canard was repeated over and over: without the slightest challenge or refutation from anyone.
I have heard/read nothing, of the key, eyewitness-corroborated horrific facts, which you have been dutifully reporting, anywhere.

[Doda McCheesle]

Muslim "scripture" states:

"The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Muslims make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew is hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will cry out: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and slay him!’” (Sahih Bukhari 004.52.176)"

This is a WORLD WAR, started 1,400 years ago by a DEMON, called by the title "mohammed".

This war will not end until the EVIL that is ISLAM is utterly ANNIHILATED from the face of the earth. This is NOT saying that all muslims should be killed, as they can easily come to understand how WRONG their "religion" is and renounce it (HAH!!).

Of course, we are all waiting eagerly and anxiously for all those "moderate" muslims to publicy renounce "scripture" such as the above, and others that declare the world divided in two- the house of islam, and the house of war.

The billion "peaceful" muslims need to clean their own house. We can't do it for them without use of WMD.

[sebjoeko]

Given the knowledge base of the many readers here, and notwithstanding the proclamations made by honored Islamic scholars the world over, can ANYONE report ANYTIME that Muslims ANYWHERE, including their newly adopted Western democracies, have taken to the streets, openly and vocally, to protest the mindless, inhuman slaughter of innocent people, perpertrated by their own, in the name of their God?
All the 'moderate Muslims', that monitor this site, and periodically threaten its host, can any of them give us JUST ONE documented instance of Muslims actually PROTESTING the savagery done in the name of their 'sacred faith'?

[epaminondas]

Just another day to kill jews.
Another day in the noble Quran's racist sideshow
Another day to demonstrate what Islam is
Another day to display what Islamic justice is
Another day to have morons tell us, that this action and all who support it, sympathize with it are a tiny splinter ...
Another day to hear these racist killers haltingly referred to as militants
Another day to listen to the obfuscations of the media who are too scared of what might happen with the truth

What will it take to be enough?
What will it look like when it is enough?

What will we do when it is?

[yonason]

HASHEM YINKOM DAMAM!

This is the price of appeasement.

It is the fault of Israeli "leaders" and their enabler "friends" who encourage them to "make peace" with those who only use that as a means of growing more powerful as a result, in order to ultimately destroy us.

Until Islam is removed from the World there will be no peace anywhere. Until then, Israel must stand up to them according to Torah, which is our only strength. Without it our guns are useless. If we stand firm, it will hasten the demise of evil. If not, we prolong it.

Additionally, we need to prepare for and constantly ask for Moshiach, because there is an ever increasing vacuum of leadership everywhere, and ony he will have the clarity to lead all of us effectively.

Those who did this are dead. Those who trained, funded and in any way helped them need to be found and exterminated, even if they are hiding behind "innocents." Their memory must be erased from the world. It will happen, please G-d sooner rather than later.

Roy Neuberger "Gets It."