This Sunday, as Jewish people across the world lit candles to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah,

a horrific terrorist attack unfolded in Australia.

Fifteen people were murdered in cold blood at Bondi Beach, among the

victims a 10-year-old little girl and beloved rabbi. While many in the Jewish community

were horrified, they sadly weren't surprised. They weren't surprised that they were targeted.

This is something Jewish leader, Alex Rivchen, has been warning about as he has witnessed

firsthand the escalating anti-Semitism spreading through his nation and the world.

Fire bombs, vandalism, attacks, and now outright murder.

Alex is co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of an Australian Jewry,

and he joins us now.

Alex, I'm so sorry to be meeting you under these circumstances,

and I do want to talk with you about what happened. But first, I want to give

you my condolences. You lost a dear friend in this terrorist attack, Rabbi Eli Schlanger,

and you wrote a beautiful tribute to him in New York Times. So I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thank you so much. It's a loss which I think we'll

all be coming to terms with for a long, long time. And the grief that I feel at the loss of my

dear friend and rabbi and spiritual leader, it's not mine alone. He belonged to the community.

And so many people were touched by his life.

This was a human being who counted his wealth, not in dollars and cents, but in how

many friends he had, in how many good deeds he could cram into a single day.

That's all he did with his life.

He awoke.

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