Following the brutal Chanukah massacre at Bondi Beach, a Menorah that had once burned brightly, illuminated throughout the year, was quietly extinguished.

In a Sky News interview, a Jewish woman identified only as Sorella, a close friend of the murdered Chabad Rabbi Eli Schlanger, shared what happened in the days after October 7th. In defiance of rising hatred, she and her husband made the deliberate decision to keep a large Menorah burning brightly outside their home.

But when the family finally returned home from the beach, their children were in tears.

“Please,” they cried. “Turn off the Menorah. Our house is going to become a target.”

At first, Sorella and her husband refused.
“No,” they said. “We can’t go down like this.”

But the children kept pleading—through sobs and fear—
“Please, Mom. Abba. Turn the Menorah off.”

Sorella looked at her children and made the hardest choice a parent can make.
“As a mother,” she said softly, “we are going to turn the Menorah off.”

That........

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