The Chabad centre, run by the Jewish Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement, is also in the vicinity.

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Lately he has expanded his Chabad initiatives, once confined to Russia and other former Soviet republics, to the West.

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He gave large sums to the local Chabad, a branch of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitchers, for the construction of a new center.

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The German Bakery is in a plush, upmarket area of Pune, close to the Osho Ashram and the Jewish Chabad House.

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The Chabad centre, run by the Jewish Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose members were targeted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is also in the area.

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The bodies of five hostages were found at the Chabad House Jewish center, which houses the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad community, a Hasidic Jewish movement.

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Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg and nanny Sandra Samuel were the only ones to make it out of the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, alive after attackers stormed the house.

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Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch were targeted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and in October 2009 the home ministry issued a security alert for the Chabad centre in Pune.

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His chassidic teachings are a light unto the nations expounding on the message brought by Chassidic Rebbeim before he became the seventh Rebbe of Chabad, the Moses of our generation.

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Because of his closeness to Soloveitchik, Schacter was witness to, and played a role in, many of Judaism's critical events during the second half of the twentieth century, said Chabad-Lubavitch leader Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky.

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