New York: The Israeli widow of a New York
City rabbi killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 can
remain in the United States permanently.
Michael Wildes told the New York Post that his client,
Frumet Teitelbaum, was granted legal residency last week.
Teitelbaum was stopped at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in March after arriving from Israel,
where she lived. She had come to visit her eight American-born
children, who were staying with her late husband's family in
Brooklyn. She was stopped for overusing her visitor's visa.
Wildes says Teitelbaum obtained a green card under a
post 9/11 law that allows families of terror victims the right
to permanent residency.
Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum died after gunmen struck the
Chabad-Lubavitch movement's center in Mumbai during a
three-day rampage.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010, 20:10