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As families celebrate the lights and joy of Hannukah, Jewish leaders are grappling with continued threats to practicing their faith safely. Tampa Bay’s Jewish leaders say they are outraged and saddened in the wake of the targeted shooting that killed 15 and injured dozens celebrating the holiday at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday.
The meaning of Hanukkah helps process through the darkness of latest antisemitic attack in Australia, Jewish community leaders say.
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‘Déjà vu’: Rabbi who was victim of 2019 antisemitic shooting mourns family member killed in Sydney
It was late in the night when Yisroel Goldstein received a call from a relative notifying him of the shooting at Bondi Beach.
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Australia’s Jewish community is defined by Holocaust survivors, Yiddishkeit and immigrants
An attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney has drawn attention to Australia’s distinctive Jewish community.
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Australian authorities ignored warning signs of rising antisemitism, some Jewish leaders say
The country endured its deadliest mass killing in nearly 30 years, with the massacre of 15 people this weekend during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach.
After the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, Jewish New Yorkers said they felt the need to stand up for their community.
Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel, like many in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, spent Sunday torn between celebrating his faith’s festival of lights and mourning an antisemitic attack in Australia. But the stin
The incoming comptroller of New York, Mark Levine, who urged Jewish New Yorkers to attend menorah lightings earlier in the day, told the crowd that none of the public Hanukkah events throughout the city had been cancelled and that “turnout has been off the charts.”
Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Bondi synagogue for the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger on Wednesday, a few blocks away from the beach where he was gunned down at a Hanukkah festival three days ago.