THEY WANT US TO FEAR.
That’s not going to happen.
The 15 Jews martyred in Sydney are a cross-section of the Jewish world: Two rabbis. A Ukrainian survivor of the Holocaust. A pre-Bat Mitzvah girl. An Israeli. And ten others. All killed for the “crime” of being Jewish in public.
There are no words to express our shock, anger, and grief at this vicious and hateful turn of events, because you know them all anyway, because they’ve all been said before, again and again and again.
What I will say is this: We are not leaving. We are not cowering. We are not giving up our identity. We are who we are, as we’ve been for millennia, and will be – G?d willing – for millennia more.
We are an eternal people, and we will survive.
Deal with it.
There are no words, yet there must be words, and you say them so well. Wishing love, peace, and safety to you and all the Jewish people.
Thank you.