The Australian film about Jewish unease shot in Bondi before the massacre

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Jacob Melamed's short film 'Mezuzah Man' follows a protagonist who refuses to remove visible signs of his Jewishness in face of antisemitism. What was at first a meditation on 'all the weird and wacky ways that Jewish people react to hatred,' became eerily prophetic after the Hanukkah Bondi massacre

SYDNEY - Writer-director Jacob Melamed never intended for his short film, "Mezuzah Man," to be prophetic.