(Photos by Oliver Hamlin for WSB)

Two concurrent menorah-lighting gatherings in West Seattle marked the start of Hanukkah’s eighth and final night tonight. At Alki Beach, the West Seattle Torah Learning Center‘s Rabbi Eli Duban lit the giant menorah, after leading those gathered in a moment of silence for victims of the Bondi Beach massacre:

After that somber start, there was also celebration, as donuts and dreidels were circulated among the crowd.

The gathering was somewhat briefer than in previous years, due to rain and wind.