US EditionRochester's Jewish community grapples with aftermath of Sydney Hanukkah shooting
Local leaders and community members in Rochester honor Hanukkah victims with menorah lightings while addressing fears of anti-Semitic violence, Mayor Malik Evans said.
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After Sydney Hanukkah massacre, House lawmakers urge Australia to act to protect Jewish community
The co-chairs of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism are urging Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act more forcefully to protect Australia’s Jewish community and implement months-old recommendations from the country’s antisemitism envoy. In a letter to Albanese sent Monday, the ten lawmakers said that the attack, which killed at least 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration, “comes in the wake of the Australian Jew…
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah was celebrated with great fanfare on the Sydney beach in Australia on the 14th. Since it is a Jewish festival, more than 1,000 Jews and the general public were celebrating the festival there. At that time, two unidentified men opened fire on the crowd unexpectedly. 16 people died in the shooting, and more than 10 are receiving treatment in the hospital. During the incident, Ahmed Al Ahmed (43) tried to stop the sh…
While Australia is bereaved by the December 14 bombing in Bondi during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, Suzanne Rutland, a Jewish history specialist and professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, decorates the anti-Semitism atmosphere that has gradually seized Australian society.
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