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Alleged Bondi Beach gunman to be charged soon, Australia PM says, as funerals of victims begin
One of two men suspected of carrying out Australia's deadliest mass shooting in three decades will be charged later on Wednesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, as the funerals of the Jewish victims of Sunday's attack began.
Australia's prime minister said the suspects in the shooting at the Hanukkah event were “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” They had traveled to the Philippines before the attack, officials said.
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Local rabbi dedicates menorah lighting to family member shot during Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A menorah lighting in Cranberry on Tuesday took on a special meaning. Chabad of Cranberry hosted the event. The center’s rabbi dedicated the lighting to his sister’s brother-in-law, who is in intensive care, and other victims of the mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
People of all ages had been looking forward to celebrating — especially this year, as a ceasefire in Gaza has held since October and all but one of the hostages taken by Hamas-led militants have been returned.
WASHINGTON In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, condemned
Australia's PM says the attack - in which 15 people were killed - appears to have been "motivated by Islamic State ideology".
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann is now the director of Chabad Columbus. Marked among the dead was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the brother-in-law of one of Kaltmann's friends from when he studied at the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand.