"A 10-year-old named Matilda was the youngest victim killed on the first night of Hanukkah. On Sunday night, her family returned to the site of the attack at Bondi Beach, joined by thousands of Jews. Matilda's father lit the menorah to honor her short, joyful life, an act of mourning, and defiance that was felt from Australia to Israel to New York City."
""Eli's mission in this world was to spread goodness and kindness and spread light around the whole world," Schlanger's sister said. Rabbi Schlanger had deep ties to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. On Sunday, his family gathered at the largest public menorah. "My mother-in-law, his sister, just finished the week of mourning, official mourning of shivah, this morning," said Chaim Pinczower, whose wife is Schlanger's niece. "It's really hard to comprehend that such a thing could happen nowadays.""
The family of Rabbi Eli Schlanger lit a menorah in Brooklyn on the eighth night of Hanukkah, hours after finishing a week of mourning. Rabbi Schlanger, 41, was one of 15 killed during a holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 14. A 10-year-old named Matilda was the youngest victim; her family returned to Bondi Beach with thousands of Jews, and her father lit a menorah to honor her short, joyful life. Schlanger's family gathered at the largest public menorah in Crown Heights. Family members emphasized spreading goodness and light, urged the community to "be more Jewish," and called for condemnation of antisemitism and hate.
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