Hanukkah, Sydney
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Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the Hanukkah Jewish festival.
The massacre at a popular Australian beach followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country over the past year.
Yehudah Leib ben Manya Lazaroff, 20, was among those critically injured in the terror attack at Bondi Beach. His uncle, a Houston rabbi, said he'd been volunteering in Australia for a year.
A local rabbi, a Holocaust survivor and a 12-year-old girl are among those killed during the shooting attack on Dec. 14 at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia. As of publication, here’s
Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Rabbi Chaim Markovits is from Sydney, and says his family typically goes to the Hanukkah celebration that left 15 people dead. He says they are safe, but shaken.
Two gunmen have killed at least 11 people and injured at least 29 others during a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in what is being called an antisemitic attack.
The Chabad of Anne Arundel County’s parade of lights and Menorah lighting took on a more somber and defiant tone this year.