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A troubling rise in antisemitic attacks and incidents in recent years have left some feeling anger after the kind of deadly attack they felt was sure to happen.
A mass shooting at a Hannukah event in Sydney, Australia, has sent ripples of fear, loss, and hopelessness across the larger Jewish world at the start of the week-long holiday- including with community members in Berkshire County.
Maryland politicians condemned antisemitism while Jewish community leaders vowed to continue “spreading light” after a terrorist attack on Australians celebrating Hanukkah left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured on Sunday,
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Undeterred by Sydney attack, Chabad defiantly celebrates Hanukkah around the world
Chabad, the international Hasidic Jewish movement that held the Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration, often bears the brunt of antisemitic attacks. That's because in the Jewish world, it is boldly public facing.
Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel, like many in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, spent Sunday torn between celebrating his faith’s festival of lights and mourning an antisemitic attack in Australia. But the stin
The incoming comptroller of New York, Mark Levine, who urged Jewish New Yorkers to attend menorah lightings earlier in the day, told the crowd that none of the public Hanukkah events throughout the city had been cancelled and that “turnout has been off the charts.”
More than 100 people gathered for prayers and lit the first candle of the menorah in Winnipeg during a ceremony overshadowed by a deadly shooting in Australia hours earlier during a similar Hanukkah celebration.
An investigation is underway after a deadly attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.