Members of Richmond’s Jewish community are pressing forward with a public Chanukah menorah lighting Sunday evening, hours after a terrorist attack at a similar celebration in Sydney, Australia, left at least 11 people dead and 29 hospitalized.
Rabbi Yitzchok Wagner of Chabad of Richmond said the ceremony at Marina Bay will proceed as scheduled at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, with Richmond Police coordinating security for the event.
“We are absolutely shocked and devastated by devastating news from Australia,” Wagner said in a statement released Sunday morning, describing the attack at Bondi Beach as targeting “the very idea of Jewish light, Jewish presence, and Jewish pride.”…