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The man drove into a side entrance of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Hasidic movement's headquarters, then reversed before accelerating again into the entrance multiple times. The impact knocked a door off its hinges as a crowd gathered, according to footage that was shared widely. No one was injured in the incident, which took place at 8:45 p.m. as the Chabad community marked the anniversary of the death of the movement's penultimate leader, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson.

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.