A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and triggering a fatal avalanche on Mount Everest.
A large shipment of Passover supplies arrived in Kathmandu just in time for seder.
The massive Passover seder held annually in Kathmandu will go on this year despite a strike by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the head of the Chabad center asserted.
A Chabad rabbi in Nepal averted the cremation of a 32-year-old Australian woman who died in a road accident.