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We made it through year one – what now?

by Stefanie Small, LCSW, Clinical Director, JFCS Counseling Services The build-up, media blitz, community attention and city-wide day of commemoration of the shooting at Tree of Life Or L’Simcha is over, and it is November. We have made it through year one, which therapists say is generally the hardest. So…Read More

Parkland to Pittsburgh: Stronger Together

On Friday, April 5, a group of students, teachers and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and teachers were killed in a mass shooting in February of last year, came to Pittsburgh for the weekend. They came to Pittsburgh to show solidarity and a very personal…Read More

Israel Trauma Coalition returns to Pittsburgh

[caption id="attachment_4937" align="alignleft" width="417"] Site of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill where a shooting took 11 lives. Photo taken on October 31, 2018[/caption] Within hours of the October 27th attack, the team from the Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC) was already on a plane to Pittsburgh. Contacting JFCS…Read More

Community Support Update

As we turn the page into 2019, Squirrel Hill streets look very much the same as they always have, bustling with people shopping and eating. But many people are still thinking about October 27, and feel that the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life has changed this community forever.…Read More