New York/Sydney, 16 December (H.S.): Prominent American Jewish organisations on Monday issued an imperative for stringent safeguards at communal gatherings, mandating pre-registration screening and restricted ingress following Sunday's antisemitic onslaught at Sydney's Bondi Beach, where gunmen—a father-son duo—slaughtered 15 souls, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger of Chabad Bondi, during a Chanukah by the Sea festival attended by thousands.

The advisory, from security-specialised entities, prescribes divulging event particulars solely to vetted registrants, bolstering ingress protocols with locks and ushering to bar interlopers, amid a toll encompassing a 10-year-old child, Holocaust survivor, two rabbis spanning ages 10 to 87, plus 42 hospitalised—two officers wounded and the elder assailant felled by police, his 24-year-old progeny critically injured.

Australian Premier Anthony Albanese decried the pure malevolence tainting Bondi's joyous precinct, vowing gun law fortifications as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted Canberra's Palestinian state recognition for fomenting hatred, while New South Wales tallied Australia's grimmest shooting in decades.

Defiance tempers dread: Chabad globally persists with menorah illuminations under amplified vigils, echoing Rabbi Schlanger's prior exhortation to be more Jewish, as synagogues like Miami's Temple Beth Sholom and Pittsburgh's Tree of Life—scarred by 2018's 11 murders—champion unyielding observance, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers invoking Maccabean fortitude against fear.

Reform Judaism's Rabbi Rick Jacobs fused Talmudic peril cautions with public menorah mandates, while Shalom Hartman savant Alon Shalev urged amplified visibility to affirm civic belonging, lest retreat embolden perpetrators.

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