On Sunday, as Jews around the world gathered for the first night of Hanukkah, an antisemitic terrorist opened fire on Jewish men, women, and children celebrating the holiday on Bondi Beach in Australia. This despicable attack has already claimed the lives of more than a dozen innocents, including a girl as young as ten and a Holocaust survivor.
Jews, including my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, have honored Hanukkah—a holiday commemorating the resilience of the Jewish people and the miracles of the God of Abraham—for thousands of years. Sunday’s attack is a somber reminder that the Jewish people will mark Hanukkah once again this year amid a disturbing global rise in hateful rhetoric against the Jewish community, including here in the United States.
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