It was at a ceremony like this one, thousands of miles away in Australia, where two gunmen opened fire on Sunday, killing at least 16 people, including a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.

Following a shooting at a Hanukkah celebration that left at least 15 people dead on Australia’s Bondi Beach, some people in the Jewish community said they had “warned the government” over a rise in an...

The violence erupted at the end of a summer day when thousands had flocked to Bondi Beach, an icon of Australia’s cultural life.