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Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
Opinion
The call of this hard Hanukkah moment remains simple and urgent: Light candles everywhere
At least 15 people were killed in a shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia
- Her daughter left the Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration just before the shooting, then asked, ‘Mommy, why do they hate us so much?’
- At Chabad Hanukkah party in California, hours after Bondi Beach massacre, joy defied grief’s shadow
- Timeline: How attacks on Jews in Australia have been growing since Oct. 7
- After Australia shooting, Jewish leaders say Mamdani’s refusal to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ has consequences
Fast Forward
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Sydney Opera House lit by giant menorah as vigils for Bondi Beach victims take place across Australia
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Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, criticizes university over antisemitism and protests
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22 arrested in Amsterdam protest over contentious Hanukkah concert featuring IDF cantor
Perspectives
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Opinion Australia welcomed my family’s Holocaust survivors — and Bondi Beach soon became a symbol of renewal for me
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Opinion The Maccabees taught us persistence and hope – even when the light flickers, as it has this Hanukkah
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Letters In the fight against K-12 antisemitism, we are grateful for allies – but are not afraid to call out antisemitism when we see it
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Opinion Will laying tefillin make a difference? A rabbi responds to his cousin’s murder in Australia attack
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Holy Ground
Holy Ground
As synagogues close, a grandson of Holocaust survivors is building a new one — in an Illinois cornfield
Amid the harvest, the descendants of Holocaust survivors paused their farmwork to pray in a tent beside the fields — marking the first step toward a new synagogue in the American heartland.
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