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As Russian investigators probe the apparent Friday evening bombing of a high-speed express train from Moscow to S. Petersburg, Jewish community leaders have joined concerned families and citizens in awaiting an official list of casualties.
Lifting candles high up in the air and swaying to the cadence of a song about the power of light, hundreds of Jewish community members, Indian officials and Israeli diplomats lit up the darkened street outside of Mumbai’s Nariman House Thursday night.
It was exactly one year ago when Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Thailand and the regional director of the Jewish movement’s activities in India, received a call in the middle of the night in Bangkok.
Volunteers across the country are taking steps to bring joy to those less fortunate and, in the process, making the American holiday meaningful for their own families.
It was the spring of ’69 when the plane carrying U.S. Army Capt. Hank Webb touched down at Da Nang Air Base, opening the door on the Jewish soldier’s first tour of duty in Vietnam.
