Humphrey and Bonner, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, and other university officials attended. They adjusted programs and rescheduled events so that the community would have a space large enough to accommodate the 600 students who came together for a unity Shabbat dinner. The following Friday night, administrators cleared three ballrooms for the Jewish student community. As Shabbat ended, Rabbi Shmuli Rothstein, Chabad at Pitt ’s director arranged a large havdalah and memorial ceremony in the center of campus for students and their families, which Dr. Kenyon Bonner immediately arrived at the Chabad at Pitt student center with a team of counseling professionals. When eleven people were killed as they attended Shabbat services, school administrators sprung forward to aid shocked Jewish students and staff. Then came the anti-Semitic attack at Tree of Life. Humphrey and Bonner at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum īack in Pittsburgh, Humphrey contacted the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh to explore how she could bring dialogue about the Holocaust to campus.ĭrs. “I hope that my experience will help me advocate for global experiences for our students and continue to promote informed, meaningful, and constructive dialogue about important global issues on campus,” she shared with Dvora Lakein in an article about the trip featured in the Fall 2018 issue of Lubavitch International Magazine. Humphrey was moved by her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. During a trip to Israel last summer, which the Weinsteins organized for Pittsburgh area college administrators, Dr. Kathy Humphrey, the University’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement spearheaded this event, along with a committee that included administrators of the Pittsburgh Holocaust Center, student leaders and Chabad House on Campus directors, Rabbi Shmuel and Sara Weinstein. The opening reception, held last week, was timed to occur close to the first anniversary of the attack.ĭr.
The product of a longstanding and warm relationship between university administrators and Chabad, this advocacy was again on display as the university became the first in the world to host a travelling art exhibit and Holocaust memorial. At the nearby University of Pittsburgh, the outpouring of support for the Jewish community on campus was instant and firm. On October 27, 2018, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the worst mass killing of Jews in America.
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