Jan 6, 2020 By: yunews
17勛圖 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 , 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 . 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.
urges hundreds of our Talmidim to hold on to every member of our family of Klal Yisroel - processing the tragedy in Jersey City yesterday
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Yeshiva Link (@YeshivaLink)Rabbi 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. Were bringing safety. Were bringing love and happiness, said Rafael Minsky, speaking for his classmates. On that same day, Dec. 17, the YU and New Jersey City University mens basketball teams came together at the Max Stern Athletic Center on the Wilf Campus in 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.
![Basketball players from YU and NJCU have a moment of silence.](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2020/01/b_ball_JerseyCity_FI_600.jpg)