Des Moines rabbi mourns cousin killed during terrorist attack at Australia Hanukkah celebration

DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines rabbi is related to one of the victims of the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Australia.

The mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration killed 15 people, making it Australia’s deadliest this century.

Rabbi Levi Goldstein lives in Des Moines. His aunt and uncle started the Hanukkah festival over a decade ago. The two have since handed it over to Rabbi Eli Schlanger who helped grow it to a much-larger scale…

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