Lynnwood Menorah lighting defies darkness after Sydney terror attack

LYNNWOOD—Amid grief over a deadly terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, approximately two hundred gathered at the Lynnwood City Center Light Rail Station on Sunday to light a giant menorah, affirming that goodness and light will overcome darkness and hate. Rabbi Berel Paltiel, director of Snohaimish Chabad of Snohomish County, led the […]
Rabbi Paltiel honors friend Rabbi Schlanger who was killed in Bondi Beach Hanukkah terror attack

LYNNWOOD—Rabbi Berel Paltiel of Snohaimish of Chabad Snohomish County released the following statement on the Hanukkah event terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia: “We are devastated and absolutely heartbroken. “Rabbi Eli Schlanger was my colleague, a fellow Chabad rabbi, and someone I remember from yeshiva. This loss is painfully personal. Eli was a […]
Hanukkah massacre in Australia terror attack at Bondi Beach

SYDNEY—At least 15 people were killed, including one of the gunmen killed by police, and 40 others injured Sunday, December 14, when two possibly three gunmen opened fire on a crowded Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, in what authorities have declared a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community. Sunday is this first day of […]