Jan 6, 2020 By: yunews
Yeshiva University reached out in many ways to offer comfort and counseling to the Greenville community in Jersey City, New Jersey, after the tragedy of the shootings on Dec. 10.
On Dec. 11, Rabbi Menachem Penner, dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, gathered students together in the Nagel Commons on the Wilf Campus and urged them and “hundreds of our Talmidim to ‘hold on to every member of our family’ of Klal Yisroel [all of Israel]” as they processed the tragedy in Jersey City. Similar prayer sessions were held on the Israel Henry Beren Campus as well.
During the Chanukah Chagiga on Dec. 30 at the Israel Henry Beren Campus, students wrote “Letters of Hope” to the families of the victims of the attack.
@rietsdean urges hundreds of our Talmidim to “hold on to every member of our family” of Klal Yisroel - processing the tragedy in Jersey City yesterday pic.twitter.com/eM7TKwpnY0
— Yeshiva Link (@YeshivaLink) December 12, 2019
— Yeshiva Link (@YeshivaLink) December 12, 2019Rabbi Yonason Shippel, director of the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies, led a group of students from the JSS program on Dec. 17 to Jersey City to pay their respects. “We’re bringing safety. We’re bringing love and happiness,” said Rafael Minsky, speaking for his classmates. On that same day, Dec. 17, the YU and New Jersey City University men’s basketball teams came together at the Max Stern Athletic Center on the Wilf Campus in a show of solidarity as the national anthems of the United States and Israel were played following a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Jersey City shooting.
During the Chanukah Chagiga on Dec. 30 at the Israel Henry Beren Campus, students wrote “Letters of Hope” to the families of the victims of the attack.
