2025 Bondi Beach Shooting   Wikipedia

On the first night of Hanukkah 2025 - at a crowded "Hanukkah by the Sea" celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia - a moment meant to be defined by light and tradition was shattered by an act of terrorism taking the lives of 15 and wounding 40 other innocent people including a Holocaust survivor and a rabbi.

Jewish communities around the world are uniting in prayer and mourning. Here in NYC - as Hanukkah set it - you could feel the connection of its Jewish population as Jews discuss the rise of antisemitism around the world in recent years.