[Financial Times-UK] Amy Kazmin - For thousands of Jewish travelers visiting Mumbai each year, the Habad House was an important port of call, offering services that ranged from kosher meals to holiday services to the sympathetic ear of a young rabbi. Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg, a young Israeli who also holds U.S. citizenship, and his wife Rifka, set up the Habad House in Mumbai five years ago. Rabbi Yosef Kantor, a Habad rabbi in Bangkok who worked closely with Rabbi Holtzberg, said, "He is a man with a very big heart....He was very committed to the mission he took upon himself."
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