JKHA middle school students took part in developmentally appropriate responses to Saturday’s tragedy in Pittsburgh. After saying Tehillim, JKHA middle school Guidance Counselor Aviva Wasserman spoke to students in fifth grade, and Judaic studies faculty member Rabbi Feit addressed sixth-eighth grades after davening to help them process this tragic event in a meaningful way.

Rabbi Feit stressed that when a Jew is affected anywhere in the world, all of us are affected. He encouraged the students to do mitzvot and acts of kindness as a response to the tragedy. Seventh and eighth grade students met with their Judaic studies faculty, using information from Wasserman, as a guide for the classroom discussion.