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Brown University students light first Hanukkah candle in the shadow of mass shooting

JL;DR SUMMARY Brown University students gathered for a somber Hanukkah candle lighting that also served as a vigil following a devastating mass shooting in an economics class, where two were killed and nine injured. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityTraumaHanukkahSolidarityBrown UniversityVigilGun ViolenceCommunal SupportMass Shooting

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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
"PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island Dozens of Brown University students shielded their candles at a menorah lighting that doubled as a vigil on Sunday night as Hanukkah arrived under a sheet of snow and a thick blanket of trauma, following a mass shooting in an economics class."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Yael Ranel Filus, a sophomore engineering student from Tel Aviv, goes daily to Barus and Holley and was at a nearby building when shots rang out."
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
"Across the world on Sunday, at least 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting attack on Jews who gathered to celebrate Hanukkah in Sydney."
Burlington, Vermont, United States
"The Brown community was ravaged by gun violence only two years ago, when a Brown student, Hisham Awartani, was among three Palestinian students who were shot over Thanksgiving break in Burlington, Vermont."
Parkland, Florida, United States
"The shock that ripped through Brown this weekend was familiar to Zoe Weissman, a sophomore who has lived through two school shootings in her 20 years. As a 12 year-old in Parkland, Florida, she was outside her middle school when she heard gunshots and screams from the adjacent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed in 2018."
Saugus, California, United States
"Another Brown student, junior Mia Tretta, was shot in the abdomen during a 2019 attack on Saugus High School in California."

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