In a show of faith, hundreds light the menorah in Dallas as they remember those lost in the Bondi Beach festival attack.

The “much much more” turned out to be at least 15 dead – surpassing the death toll in the 2018 attack 15,500 kilometres away in Pittsburgh, where 11 Jews were slaughtered at prayer in the heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood.

Less than three weeks later, we were in the crossfire on Bondi Beach. We had come, like many other families, to celebrate Hanukkah, the joyous festival of lights and Jewish survival. My family sat down to watch the menorah lighting,