Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

When the lights go out

Hanukkah, Bondi Beach, and the darkness we refuse to name

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Elise Labott
Dec 16, 2025
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The last few days have brought senseless tragedy and heartbreak: the massacre of Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Australia, a mass shooting at Brown University while students were studying for finals, six teenagers shot at a sweet sixteen in Brooklyn and the murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle in Los Angeles - their own son …

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