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JL;DR SUMMARY Following a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, a unique project emerged to preserve the memory of the victims: Sydney Jewish Museum curators and artists gathered and preserved flowers from the memorial site for a future art installation. 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 CommunityMemorialHadassah Medical OrganizationArt InstallationTrauma CareMedical AdvancementsBondi BeachIsrael Australia RelationsSydney Jewish MuseumVictims Support

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
"Within a few days of the terror attack at Sydneys Bondi Beach on December 14, the memorial site in front of Bondi Pavilion was filled with handwritten notes, candles, toys and hundreds of thousands of flowers."
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"The Gandel Foundation, based in Melbourne, is the principal donor behind the Gandel Rehabilitation Center on the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus campus."
Jerusalem, Israel
"This ability to respond so quicklybridging the almost 9,000-mile distance between Jerusalem and Sydneywas built on a network of communication developed over years between Israel and Australian Jewish community leaders, and between HMO, Hadassah Australia and Hadassah in the United States."

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