The meaning of Hanukkah helps process through the darkness of latest antisemitic attack in Australia, Jewish community leaders say.

Hanukkah celebrations continued in Chicago's Jewish community in light of the shooting in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend.

Hundreds of gold chocolate coins fell from a Columbia firetruck on Tuesday evening for Chabad of Columbia’s annual Hanukkah menorah lighting outside of Columbia City Hall. However, this year's celebration carried a bit of extra weight in the wake of a deadly attack at a Hanukkah event in Sydney,

The Australia killings cast a pall over holiday celebrations in Pacific Palisades, where the Jewish community gathered for the first Hanukkah celebrations since the January wildfires.

As Jewish families around the world mark the third night of Hanukkah, congregants at B’nai Zion synagogue in Shreveport are celebrating with heavy hearts following a deadly attack in Sydney, Australia.

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein organized the event and worried whether people would show up following the deadly mass shooting in Sydney, Australia.

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.

At least 11 people were killed and more than two dozen were injured when two gunmen opened fire on Australia's famous beach.