As members of Las Vegas’ Jewish community prepare to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah on Sunday, the Festival of Lights has been overshadowed by a shooting in Australia at a Hanukkah celebration.

Two gunmen killed at least 15 people on Sydney’s Bondi beach during a Hanukkah celebration, an act that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an antisemitic act of terrorism, according to the Associated Press.

The shooting down under didn’t stop families at Zucker Jewish Academy of Las Vegas from gathering to ring in the start of the eight-day holiday. Kids in kippahs ran around the school’s playground to jump in bouncy castles, eat latkes and listen to a DJ play remixed Hanukkah songs.

Rabbi Moshe Semmel, head of Zucker Jewish Academy, said the Jewish families he knows were “d

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