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Jewish, Australia and Hanukkah

Gunmen targeted Australia’s Jewish community in a deadly mass shooting. Here’s what we know

Sydney residents have laid flowers and lit candles in a massive outpouring of support as the community mourns people who were massacred by two gunmen in a terror attack Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach.

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U.S. Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

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16 dead in Australia shooting targeting Jewish Hanukkah party on beach

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‘Pakistan 100% terror state, dangerous s****e’: Dutch MP lashes out after Bondi Beach massacre

Dutch politician Geert Wilders has called Pakistan a “100% terror state” after the Bondi Beach massacre in which 15 people died.

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Australian PM says Bondi Beach terror attack suspects ‘motivated by Islamic State ideology’

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What we know about the shooting victims at Sydney's Bondi Beach Jewish event

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A Hanukkah Attack in Sydney

One suspect was killed, and another was wounded and taken into custody.

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PM Modi condemns terror attack in Australia

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Australia’s Jewish community saw an attack coming but no one expected the Bondi Beach horror

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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.

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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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For Australia's Jews, Bondi shooting feels tragically inevitable

Days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in Sydney, the first of a string of antisemitic incidents in Australia.

Netanyahu Says Australia Failed to Protect Jews Despite Warning

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ascribed the fatal mass shooting in Sydney to Australia’s call for a Palestinian state, saying he warned ahead of the attack that the move “pours fuel on antisemitic fire.

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Chicago's Jewish community celebrate second night of Hanukkah following Sydney attack

Hanukkah celebrations continued in Chicago's Jewish community in light of the shooting in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend.

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A near escape from violence sharpens a family’s fears amid rising antisemitism in Australia

The daughter of an American expatriate living about two miles from the mass killing at a Hanukkah celebration in suburban Sydney, Australia, escaped the carnage by coming home to change clothes, her mother said.

Massacre of Jews at Sydney’s Iconic Bondi Beach Shocks Australia

At around 6:47 p.m., as the sun began to fade on a warm Sunday afternoon at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, the first gunshots rang out.

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Holocaust survivors and children among the 15 killed after crazed gunmen fire on Sydney Hanukkah celebration

The victims range in age from 10 to 87, Australian authorities confirmed, and include religious leaders, devoted friends and beloved family members.