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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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Gunmen kill at least 15 in attack targeting Australia's Bondi Beach Jewish community Hanukkah celebration, officials say

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Australia to toughen hate speech laws after Bondi Beach Jewish attack

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Suspected gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre charged with 59 offences, police say

24-year-old alleged Bondi attacker Naveed Akram has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder, after waking from his coma on Tuesday.

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Bondi gunmen were inspired by Islamic State, had travelled to the Philippines, Australia police say

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Police investigating Bondi gunmen's trip to Philippines month before shooting

The Christian Science Monitor

Australia was a haven for generations of Jews. Now, they wonder about the future.

The Bondi Beach massacre has shattered the sense of security held by Australian Jews, generations of whom found a warm haven far from the horrors of Europe. Some now hope Australians see that antisemitism is not just a Jewish problem.

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Australian authorities ignored warning signs of rising antisemitism, some Jewish leaders say

For the past couple of years, leaders in Australia’s Jewish community have been seeing a rise in antisemitism and urging the country’s leaders to act.

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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.

Graham says Australian PM put Jews ‘at risk,’ calls Western nations ‘pathetically weak’ after Hanukkah attack

Sen. Lindsey Graham blasts Australian PM Anthony Albanese as "pathetically weak" following deadly Hanukkah terror attack in Sydney that killed 15 victims.

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Mass shooting at Jewish event on Bondi Beach follows rising antisemitism in Australia

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Sydney beach that killed at least 11 people an act of antisemitism and terrorism.

Some Australian Jews Accuse the Government of Failing to Heed Warnings

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.

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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.

Security concerns heightened for American Jews in wake of Australia massacre

While there are some American Jews who might be wary of outward displays of their faith this holiday season, others will be louder and prouder about their identity. Community menorah lightings