Antisemitism
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The alleged Sydney gunmen are accused of throwing bombs at a Jewish crowd before opening fire from a footbridge.
Separately, London Mayor Sadiq Khan welcomed Chanukah celebrations at Trafalgar Square.
The nanny, identified only as “Leila Y.,” was sentenced to three years in prison—six months of which were suspended.
Combating the hate “requires ordinary people rejecting lies and bias, embracing diversity, humanity and truth,” said Isaac Herzog.
Gefen Bitton was working in Australia as a garage door technician.
The three men sexually assaulted women and planned to abduct Jews, with one defendant accused of aiding ISIS, police say.
At 6:47 p.m., memorials and moments of silence honored those slain in the antisemitic attack in Sydney.
After playing professionally in Israel, the Philadelphia native founded a youth program that blends sports, education and coexistence.
“There can be no place for the poison of antisemitism, especially in Europe,” Ursula von der Leyen tells Chanukah a gathering in Brussels.
Anthony Albanese also announced a gun buyback plan and a “day of reflection” to be marked on Dec. 21, one week after the massacre on Bondi Beach.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) stated that the country’s actions “go beyond rhetoric and cross into formal economic discrimination against one of America’s closest allies.”
“Acts of hate may try to intimidate, but they will never define us—our Torah, our values and our unity will always be stronger,” Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan, told JNS.
