Shloshim at St Kilda Shule
Melbourne remembers Bondi
St Kilda Shule was at capacity as more than 1,000 gathered for the shloshim after the Bondi Chanukah attack.
Sheina Gutnick and Perele Goldhirsch light memorial candles as Rabbi Glasman looks on. Photo: Paul Topol
More than 1000 people filled St Kilda Shule to capacity on Monday evening to mark the shloshim for victims of the Chanukah massacre at Bondi Beach.
The solemn event heard from family members of two of the 15 people murdered in the December 14 attack, with memorial candles lit for each victim at the service’s conclusion.
Perele Goldhirsch, sister of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, urged the community to respond to tragedy through action.
“When darkness tries to break us, the Jewish response is not to retreat. It is not silence, it is not fear, but rather, it is light and action,” she said.
She recalled her brother’s final message, which has since gone viral: “Be more Jewish. Act more Jewish. Appear more Jewish.”
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