Obituaries

For days, Yocheved Orpaz’s family prayed that she wasn’t among the hostages at the Chabad house, but an e-mail left them fearing the worst.

Friends and family remembered Norma Shvartzblat Rabinovich, whose life was cut short by terrorists’ bullets at the age of 50, as an idealistic, adventurous and thoughtful woman.

When terrorists stormed the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, India, and stole the life of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, 37, they also took a father from his eight young children.

How Rivky, amidst dealing with her personal tragedy, running a Chabad house, teaching classes, caring for Moshe, and cooking meals for dozens of people daily, had extra hours available for talking is a mystery.

Rabbi Bentzion Kruman took the kosher supervision job that would eventually take him to India so that he could purchase a home. He was one of the victims recovered from the Mumbai Chabad House.

Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the beloved directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed during one of the worst terrorist attacks to strike India in recent memory.