San Diego leaders mark end of Hanukkah by showing unity against hate

San Diego community leaders rang in the end of Hanukkah with a call for acceptance and peace worldwide by joining together and lighting a 6-foot-tall menorah downtown on Monday.

The event — hosted by Jordan Marks, a Jewish leader and the county’s elected assessor, recorder and clerk came in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia and other antisemitic attacks worldwide.

Marks lamented the attack in Australia that killed 15 people, including a child, and injured dozens more during a beachside Hanukkah celebration. Among those killed was the nephew of Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi who was shot and wounded in 2019 in the antisemitic attack at Chabad of Poway.

Marks said similar types of violence and hate have no place in San Diego County.

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