Sydney, Hanukkah and Bondi Beach
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At least 15 people are dead after a mass shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday. Follow live updates.
Here's what we know about the mass shooting that left at least 15 people dead. And, authorities found director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, dead in their Los Angeles home.
Police said around 1,000 people had attended the Jewish celebration, which was held in a small park off the beach.
"Please say Psalms 20 & 21 for my son, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, who was shot in a terrorist attack at a Chanukah event he was running for Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, Australia," Yossi Lazaroff wrote Sunday. "The Chabad Rabbi he was working with Rabbi Eli Schlanger was killed. Praying for all the victims and their families."
Two medical professionals who live near Bondi Beach, where gunmen attacked a Hanukkah festival on Sunday, described a harrowing scene.
Australian police launched an investigation after multiple pig heads were found at a Muslim cemetery on the outskirts of Sydney.
More than 100 people gathered for prayers and lit the first candle of the menorah in Winnipeg during a ceremony overshadowed by a deadly shooting in Australia hours earlier during a similar Hanukkah celebration.
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Shooting on Bondi Beach pierces Australia's sense of security. Survivors remember moments of terror
In the minutes that followed the first sounds of gunfire Sunday night at Bondi Beach in Sydney, the assault would end the lives of at least 15 people.