By Max Winitz
Dec. 3, 2008
..."Wilmgington resident, Rabbi Moshe Lieblich was a college classmate of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg.
Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were two of the five people killed in a Jewish Community Center during this weeks terrorist attacks.
Rabbi Lieblich fondly remembers his fallen former classmate, "We studied together at Yeshiva. He was a year older than me. Nevertheless, I knew him very well. The Rabbi's wife is extended family...I know them very well."
According to Rabbi Lieblich, Holtzberg worked hard to support the small Jewish community that lived in Mumbai, a place where his religion was far from popular.
"His wife would bake all the bread for one hundred people in a week. He would have to slaughter chickens to keep and have kosher food...so it was really a big sacrifice for him to go out there and do what he did," explains Lieblich"...
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