Attack that killed at least 15 people interrupted the lighting of a menorah arranged by the Hassidic Jewish group
The attack on Sydney’s Bondi beach that killed at least 15 people brutally interrupted one of the first of 15,000 public lightings around the world of a menorah, a multi-branched candelabrum central to Judaism, to mark the start of the eight-day Hanukah festival. The annual global lightings are organised by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Orthodox Hassidic Judaism whose visibility as a vibrant, open and outgoing community appears to have made it a target for hate.
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