The killings have forced a reckoning with real danger, but a fierce determination ‘to never give up our Judaism’ and to express it publicly At the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the 15 victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack in Bondi, Rabbi Ritchie Moss stood before the assembled crowd and urged the community to honour Schlanger by “being so much more Jewish, more proud, more loving”. On the same day, a Jewish bakery in inner-city Sydney closed its doors, apparently for good, saying that in the wake of the Bondi attack “one thing has become clear – it is no longer possible to make outwardly, publicly, proudly Jewish places and events safe in Australia”. Continue reading...

While you might be feeling a sense of helplessness after the attack at Bondi Beach, there are ways to convert those feelings into small acts of support and kindness.