These are the stories that deserve recognition. All who intervened, Ahmed al-Ahmed and the Jewish community members who rushed toward danger, are heroes. But their stories hold a message for the Jewish community specifically: We must remember who we are. We are lions. The Maccabees understood this when they faced impossible odds and refused to submit. Hanukkah commemorates that refusal, that insistence on Jewish strength and dignity in a world that has never guaranteed our safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In an antisemitic climate where leaders offer empty platitudes in lieu of protection, we cannot afford to forget our own power. We must tell these stories of Jewish heroism because, evidently, no one else will. The murdered and wounded of Bondi Beach were defended by those who understood that Jewish survival demands Jewish courage. To be proud, celebrate without fear, and take up space. As we light the final Hanukkah candles this year, these heroes remind us: We are not victims waiting in the dark for someone else to save us. We are the light that pushes back.<\/span><\/p>\n Nicole Wizman<\/strong> is The Scroll\u2019s editorial intern.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> The Maccabees of Bondi Beach Nicole Wizman On Hanukkah night, amid terror and confusion, the true story was written by Jews who ran toward danger to protect one another Gefen Bitton \/ Cayli Barr \/ gofundme.org On the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish community was thrust into another nightmare, when at least 15 people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126882,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126870\/revisions\/126882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The Maccabees of Bondi Beach<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nNicole Wizman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n On the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish community was thrust into another nightmare, when at least 15 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a mass shooting by a father-son duo at a Chabad event in Bondi Beach. Those killed in the attack included a 10-year-old named Matilda Bee Britvan, whose family moved to Australia to escape<\/a>\u00a0the war in Ukraine, and Alex Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0while trying to shield his wife. Australian authorities later confirmed that the gathering had been deliberately targeted and meticulously\u00a0planned<\/a>, marking one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks in the country\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the hours and days that followed, one story quickly rose above the rest.\u00a0Footage<\/a>\u00a0circulating online showed a heroic bystander, later identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, rushing toward one of the attackers and wrestling a gun out of the terrorist\u2019s hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n As the footage spread rapidly across social media and news broadcasts, it soon came to dominate the public conversation, increasingly framing the attack as a story of Muslim-Jewish reconciliation rather than an act of antisemitic violence, with Ahmed al-Ahmed becoming the central figure through which the massacre was understood. This reframing allows Australia to look away from its deeper failures that made the attack possible. It also obscures another critical fact: that there were many Jews at the event who also behaved with unbelievable heroism and bravery, whose names have been largely absent from the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n It is obvious that the Australian state failed in its fundamental responsibility to protect its people. For one, the attack was perpetuated by an Indian national and his son who had documented ties to ISIS and were on Australia\u2019s intelligence agency\u00a0radar<\/a>\u00a0since 2019\u2014yet had somehow been allowed to stay in the country. For another, missing from most of the coverage is the past two years of increasingly explicit antisemitic\u00a0rhetoric<\/a>\u00a0in Australia, including pro-Palestinian demonstrations featuring chants such as \u201cGas the Jews\u201d and \u201cLong live the intifada,\u201d alongside repeated acts of vandalism against Jewish places of worship. There are also\u00a0allegations<\/a>\u00a0that the police failed to act with adequate haste to protect the Jews at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hanukkah commemorates that insistence on Jewish strength and dignity. We are not victims waiting in the dark for someone else to save us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Survivor Vanessa Miller\u00a0recalled<\/a>\u00a0that as gunfire rained down, police were \u201cstanding there, listening, and watching this all happen, holding me back\u201d as she tried to convince them to let her take the gun off the wounded officer and shoot at the terrorists. Miller was not alone in her impulse to defend the community, acting on the understanding that no meaningful protection was forthcoming from the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reuven Morrison, a member of the local Chabad known for his generosity and for donating earnings to charity, lost his life while confronting the gunmen in his own bid to protect the Jewish community. According to his daughter, Sheina Gutnick, in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with CBS, Morrison ran toward the danger as soon as the shots rang out, hurling bricks at one of the attackers in an attempt to disrupt the assault and slow the carnage. \u201cI believe after Ahmed managed to get the gun off the terrorist, my father had then gone to try and unjam the gun, to try and attempt shooting. He was screaming at the terrorist,\u201d she\u00a0said<\/a>. Originally from the former Soviet Union, Morrison had come to Australia to seek safety from antisemitism and to be able to afford a better life for his family. One year earlier (almost to the day), Morrison had warned in an ABC\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0that antisemitism was rising and that Jewish vigilance was becoming a way of life again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Chaya Mushka Dadon, 14, daughter of Chabad Rabbi Menachem and Shterny Dadon, was shot\u00a0protecting<\/a>\u00a0young girls stranded beside their wounded parents, leaving her own hiding place to get to them. She dragged the children to cover and then lay over them, taking a bullet to her thigh while she recited prayers. Chaya refused to move a limb until help came and her father found her. Her surgeons later removed the bullet, and she is expected to make a full recovery. The little girls she flung herself over also are safe thanks to Chaya\u2019s bravery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Boris and Sudia Gurman, a couple in the area when the shooting started, were incredible heroes, with dashcam footage\u00a0showing<\/a>\u00a0Boris exiting his vehicle, running at the terrorist, wrestling with him on the ground, and briefly gaining control of the gun while Sofia rushed close behind. Both were shot during the struggle and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nOn Hanukkah night, amid terror and confusion, the true story was written by Jews who ran toward danger to protect one another<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Gefen Bitton \/ Cayli Barr \/ gofundme.org<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n