Toronto Rabbi Whose Relative Was Injured and Colleague Killed in Bondi Attack Warns of Internal Threats

‘Evil won’t dominate our world,’ says Rabbi Levi Gansburg of Toronto.

People embrace after laying flowers at a memorial outside Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a mass shooting that left 15 people dead. Mark Baker/AP Photo

Toronto Rabbi Levi Gansburg says the recent terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, has impacted his family and community, and warns that Canada needs to wake up to internal threats to ensure horrific anti-Semitic violence doesn’t also occur closer to home.

Gansburg’s brother-in-law’s 21-year-old nephew is fighting for his life in critical care following the Dec. 14 terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, while one of Gansburg’s rabbinical colleagues, a father of five children, was killed in the massacre.