We Will Prevail: Jewish Responses to Bondi Beach

We Will Prevail: Jewish Responses to Bondi Beach is a global anthology born out of rupture—and forged into resolve. In the wake of the antisemitic attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach, this volume gathers Jewish voices from across continents and denominations to answer terror not with silence, but with meaning. Essays and sermons wrestle with grief, rage, theology, and moral clarity; poems and prayers distill anguish into language that refuses despair. Together, these contributions insist that what happened at Bondi Beach was not an isolated act of violence, but part of a broader assault on Jewish life, memory, and holiness—and that Jewish response has always been to meet darkness with defiant light. Drawing on lived experience, sacred text, and historical consciousness, the writers affirm that Jewish survival is not passive endurance, but active, courageous presence. Edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor, We Will Prevail situates Bondi Beach within the long Jewish narrative of persecution and perseverance. The collection’s foreword by Arsen Ostrovsky—himself a survivor of the attack—grounds the book in searing testimony, while contributors illuminate how ritual, symbol, and public Jewish visibility become acts of resilience in an age of rising hatred. From sermons that reclaim Hanukkah as a festival of resistance, to reflections on courage shown by strangers who ran toward danger, to prayers that speak when prose can no longer suffice, this anthology proclaims a unified truth: evil shall not triumph. The Jewish people will endure, illuminate, and prevail! Read more