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JERUSALEM — “Everything is good.”Sandra Samuel is riding on a bus from Afula in northern Israel to the city apartment in Jerusalem that she shares with four other women from India and has agreed to talk to a reporter.She is coming from a weekly visit with her “Moshe-boy.”Ten years ago, everyone knew Samuel and the child who was then dubbed Baby Moshe. The photo of the terrified-looking Samuel running from the terrorist-besieged Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai clutching Moshe Holtzberg, the two-year-old son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad shluchim, or emissaries, was splashed on the front pages of newspapers around the world.On Nov. 26, 2008, 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organization based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks on locations throughout the Indian city.The Chabad House was among the specifically targeted locations. The photo of Moshe and his brave nanny was one of the bright spots in a tragedy that left 164 people dead and hundreds wounded.Among the dead were Moshe’s parents and four other Israeli and American visitors to the Chabad House. Five years earlier, the couple had raised money to purchase the house in order to establish a presence in Mumbai.Sandra Samuel is among the many people connected to the attack and its victims who say they carry the honor of having known the Holtzbergs and the burden of missing them. They include the new emissaries of the Mumbai Chabad and a frequent traveler who was meant to be at the center on the day it was attacked.“It went so fast, 10 years.”Samuel, 54, remembers the attack and their escape clearly.“It is not something a person forgets. It will be in my mind forever,” she tells JTA.But she is happy that Moshe remembers nothing.Samuel took refuge in a storage room on the first floor of the six-story building at the time of the attack, but hours later she heard Moshe’s cries coming from the second floor. She left her hiding place and ran up the stairs t...

She is riding on a bus from Afula in northern Israel back to the apartment in Jerusalem that she shares with four other women from India. Ten years ago, everyone knew Samuel and the child who was then dubbed Baby Moshe. The photo of the terrified-looking Samuel running from the terrorist-besieged Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai clutching Moshe Holtzberg, the 2-year-old son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad shluchim, or emissaries, was splashed on the front pages of newspapers around the world. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up On November 26, 2008, 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organization based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks on locations throughout the Indian city. The Chabad House was among the specifically targeted locations. The photo of Moshe and his brave nanny was one of the bright spots in a tragedy that left 164 people dead and hundreds wounded.Among the dead were Moshe’s parents and four other Israeli and American visitors to the Chabad House. Five years earlier, the couple had raised money to purchase the house in order to establish a presence in Mumbai.Samuel is among the many people connected to the attack and its victims who say they carry the honor of having known the Holtzbergs and the burden of missing them. They include the new emissaries of the Mumbai Chabad and a frequent traveler who was meant to be at the center on the day it was attacked.‘It went so fast, 10 years’Samuel, 54, remembers the attack and their escape clearly.“It is not something a person forgets. It will be in my mind forever,” she tells JTA.But she is happy that Moshe remembers nothing. Moshe Holtzberg with his nanny Sandra Samuel in 2010. She rescued the boy from the Chabad House attack in Mumbai and followed him to Israel. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90) Samuel took refuge in a storage room on the first floor of the six-story buildin...

COURTESY PHOTO One hundred years ago Crocker Field opened and hosted the annual Thanksgiving game between Leominster and Fitchburg.The 1918 edition of "The Rivalry" survived a football season shortened by the influenza pandemic that struck that autumn. The flu crisis even threatened the formation of a Leominster High School football team altogether.All of the Thanksgiving games that followed Crocker Field's inaugural season through the 1930 contest were also played at Fitchburg's grand stadium. The Leominster homefield, located behind the high school on West Street, was deemed inadequate, especially in comparison to Fitchburg's gem of a venue. Efforts to construct a proper field for Leominster had commenced in 1929. Just a few years before, Leominster hired a new football coach to breathe life into the school's sagging football fortunes. The Nicholson Cup, which is given to the team that wins the annual rivalry game on Thanksgiving game between Fitchburg and Leominster. COURTESY PHOTO Raymond C. Comerford became Leominster's football coach for the 1927 season. In his first year, Fitchburg defeated Leominster by the astonishing score of 64-0. The defeat was humiliating. It still represents the largest scoring disparity in the long series between the two teams.Starting with the 1918 Crocker Field opening game, Leominster had managed only a tie (1921, 7-7) and one victory (1925, 9-0) through the 1927 season.Neither the trend nor the lack of a home venue were lost on Comerford or Mayor Bernard Doyle, the benefactor of Leominster's planned new field. Because Comerford was well liked and determined, his efforts would ultimately pay off. Trips to Crocker Field on Thanksgiving in 1928 and 1929 resulted in Leominster victories by scores of 6-3 and 6-0, respectively.Adv...