Synchronicity Foundation-says 2 Va. residents killed in Mumbai

This undated family photograph of Alan Scherr, his daughter 13-year-old Naomi (center) and wife Kia (left) taken before Alan and Naomi were killed by terrorists at the Oberoi hotel in Mumbai, India. The two were traveling with the Synchronicity Foundation, a religious group based in Virginia, who were hosting a meditation program at the hotel. (AP photo / November 28, 2008)

RICHMOND, Va. - A New York rabbi and his wife and a father and his teenage daughter from a Virginia meditation community were among those killed in the terrorist attacks in India, colleagues said today. Chabad-Lubavitch movement spokesman Rabbi Zalman Schmotkin, says Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, were killed in Mumbai. They ran the movement's local headquarters, which was one of 10 sites attacked. The couple's toddler son, Moshe Holtzberg, was smuggled out of the center by an employee, and is now with his grandparents. Separately, Alan Scherr, 58, and daughter Naomi, 13, were in a cafe Wednesday night in Mumbai when they were killed, said Bobbie Garvey, a spokeswoman for the Synchronicity Foundation meditation group. The U.S. State Department confirmed their deaths on this morning.

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