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An attack targeting a Hanukkah beach party halfway around the world casts a heavy shadow as Jews in Israel celebrate the holiday for the first time in years without a full-scale war or pandemic. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Singing in Hebrew). MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Jews around the world are mourning the victims of an attack in Australia, victims who included a young girl and a Holocaust survivor. The target was a celebration marking the start of Hanukkah on Sydney's Bondi Beach.

On Sunday, two gunmen killed at least fifteen people at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, in an attack that targeted the country's Jewish community as it began its celebration of Hanukkah. At least forty more were wounded. The gunmen were father and son; the younger man is in custody and in critical condition, and the older man was killed. The gathering at Bondi Beach had been organized by Chabad, a branch of Orthodox Judaism that holds cultural and religious events around the world.

This is the story of Hanukkah, Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld of Chabad of Almaden in San Jose said. This is exactly what Hanukkah is about that over and over again, we have these stories, and we stood up and we were a resilient people, and that's what our community feels as well, that we're going to go back into the public square and we're going to light menorah again.