Chanukah After Bondi: A Flame the Killers Couldn’t Put Out

By Leo Pearlman

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This Chanukah, the lesson is clear: silence is not safety. The light we kindle must be the courage the world has abandoned. There are years when Chanukah feels symbolic and then there are years like 2025, when the metaphor becomes literal. Because this year, the festival of light arrives not as a gentle reminder of resilience, but as a demand: Remember who you are, remember what you’ve survived, and remember why you’re still here. And in the last weekend alone, the world made that lesson painfully, brutally clear.

Topics: Commentary, Attacks on Jews, Antisemitism, Diaspora Life

Tags: Chanukah, Bondi