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Tenth-grader Daniel
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lights a candle for
Pittsburgh shooting
victim Irving Younger.
Honoring Their
Memories
Farber Hebrew Day School
remembers Pittsburgh victims.
JUDY GREENWALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
I
n a moving ceremony held on
Thursday, Nov. 1, honoring the
memory of the 11 victims of the
Oct. 27 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree
of Life synagogue, Farber Hebrew
Day School (FHDS) students paid
tribute to each one of the people who
lost their lives that Shabbat morning.
Speaking during the program for
middle and high school students and
staff, ninth-grader Noa Pergament
presented a student message about
the need to combat hatred through
acts of lovingkindness and spoke on
behalf of FHDS students in calling
for an end to violence in this country.
“Hate consumes so much of this
world, most of the time for stupid or
irrational reasons,” Pergament said.
“These 11 victims got murdered for
simply being Jewish and practicing
what they believed in. The point of
this speech is to say we need to start
spreading love.
“I want to challenge everyone in
this room to give a compliment to at
least one person a day. And you never
know — you could be the difference
between life and death. Just saying
something that might seem small to
you could mean a lot more to some-
one else than you think. If you’re not
going to do it to make other people
feel good about themselves, then do it
for the victims of the shooting.”
The azkara (Jewish memorial ser-
vice) included a slideshow picturing
those who lost their lives during what
is believed to be the worst attack on a
Jewish institution in U.S. history.
Ten high school students lit candles
and spoke with emotion about each
of the innocent people who were
senselessly massacred during Shabbat
services, enumerating the positive
impacts they had on their families,
the synagogue and Pittsburgh’s Jewish
community.
Rabbi Yehudah Lowy, FHDS
Judaic Studies teacher, was a personal
friend of and teacher to Cecil and
David Rosenthal, who were among
those killed. The two brothers were
students in an adult education class
Lowy taught in 2012-13 when he
lived in the Squirrel Hill community.
Along with 2,000 others, Jewish
and non-Jewish alike, Lowy attend-
ed their funeral on Tuesday, Oct.
30. He said the service evoked both
tremendous sadness at their loss and
tremendous joy at remembering the
amazing people they were.
“They lived lives of love,” Lowy
said, “and the shul was their life.
At their loss, our Jewish heart, our
human heart, was broken. It takes
terrible times like this to realize we
are all one.”
The rabbi also read Tehillim, verses
from the Book of Psalms, which often
accompany such commemorations.
In a show of strength against
anti-Semitism in all its forms, the
ceremony concluded with the entire
assembly singing both the “Star-
Spangled Banner” and “Hatikvah,”
the U.S. and Israeli national
anthems. ■
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