(JEWISH GROUP) He lost family during the Bondi Beach attack. Hours later, he helped feed 600 unhoused people in LA

[Behind the Aegis]

Hanukkah on Bondi Beach was the coolest party of the year, recalled Yossi Segelman.

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When Segelman logged on to WhatsApp on Sunday, he learned that terrorists had murdered Schlanger at the same yearly Hanukkah celebration. One of his nieces was in surgery.

“I had a number of other family members, nieces, nephews, who were ducking at the tables and had bullets whizzing overhead and had seen things that no one should ever see,” he said.

And yet hours later, Segelman, who is the executive director of the nonprofit Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles, still showed up to lead dozens of people in preparing 600 meals for Angelenos in need.

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