RICHMOND, Va. — In light of Sunday’s terror attack in Australia, the Richmond-area Jewish community is asking for help in standing up to antisemitism.
Although it happened thousands of miles from Richmond, the attack on Australia’s Bondi Beach personally touched members of the local Jewish community. A father and son are accused of opening fire and killing at least 15 people and injuring 40 others during a Hanukkah celebration.
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“We have members in our community who are directly tied to those injured. The Chabad rabbi who was killed was a classmate of our local rabbi here in town, Rabbi Yossel Kranz, who leads our Chabad. And we have a family member, the rabbi of Temple Beth-El, the rabbi emeritus. He had a relative, a family member who was injured in the attack, who had literally just moved to Australia two weeks ago to fight antisemitism on behalf of the Jewish community,” said Daniel Staffenberg, CEO of the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond.
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Even if they did not know someone hurt or killed personally, Staffenberg says the Jewish population at large is hurting…