Rabbi Nachman Holtzerberg, the father of Mumbai Chabad emissary Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg who was murdered along with his wife Rivka and four others, will speak in London this weekend and early next week.

Holtzberg will appear on Sunday as guest speaker at a farbrengen - a Chassidic gathering - held in honour of Yud Gimmel Tammuz – the day which commemorates the liberation of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, from prison in 1927.

Cambridge Hebrew School celebrated the completion of its first academic year this week with a graduation ceremony for close to 30 students and their parents.

The school opened its doors in September 2008 and is jointly run by Chabad of Cambridge and Cambridge Traditional Jewish Community.

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Featuring performances by a flautist from the Royal College of Music and a pianist from Imperial College, the Chabad-Lubavitch centre serving schools in the South Kensington celebrated a night of Chasidic melodies last week.

Community members and students turned out for the event, which offered explanations of selected nigunim by Rabbi Naftali Loewenthal, professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College of London, and Rabbi Avremi Groner, program director of Chabad-Lubavitch of South London.