“It’s a day that I feel we have been all dreading within the Jewish group. It was the day that we had, I suppose, in some ways, warned authorities and better authorities of the chance and the chance. And it feels virtually like we have been unheard, virtually invisible.” “This was a bloodbath, a pogrom right here in our metropolis, right here at one in all our most cherished landmarks, Bondi Seaside. Lives shattered irrevocably in a single second. Younger kids, who from this level ahead, won’t ever have a father. Mother and father who’ve misplaced their beloved 10-year-old daughter. That is the second we’ve arrived at. This isn’t one thing we must always ever have seen in Australia.” “I feel everybody knew this was going to occur eventually with the trajectory that we have been on as a society, however for it to truly occur right here at our Hanukkah occasion at Bondi Seaside, which yearly is simply essentially the most stunning household occasion with children working round and — it’s a celebration.” “Eli was a very fantastic, heat, caring, vivacious, energetic, outgoing man, who liked individuals, liked doing good, liked caring for different individuals. The moment response like so many different human beings, is pointing fingers at whoever you may level fingers at with nervousness. Why aren’t the media elevating the considerations of the Jewish group? Why aren’t governments understanding the best way we really feel and the threats that we face? We really feel lonely. After which my mind says, no, cease. I’m a rabbi. I’m not a politician. My job is to unfold goodness. I do know that is what Eli can be saying.”
