Hello Friend,We stand with our community in love, warmth, and care. We will continue to update you through this newsletter, our website 1027healingpartnership.org, and our social media on all updates surrounding commemorative service and volunteering opportunities, commemorative Torah study, and the commemorative ceremony and gathering on October 27th. Commemorative CeremonyThe commemorative...

Hi Friend, As October approaches, we extend love out to you and to this entire community. The time around commemoration can be intense and emotional, and we are here to support you. This is also the time when we remember the incredible support and solidarity that was felt when Pittsburgh joined together across geographical and ideological divides. We are here to provide the space...

 Michael Bernstein is Chair of the Committee responsible for the Remember.Rebuild.Renew campaign to rebuild Tree of Life into an international institution dedicated to ending Antisemitism through education, engagement and action. Michael is a Managing Partner of Woodland Management, his family’s investment and family office which Michael has led since 2015. Prior to Woodland...

Hello Friend, How often do you feel like you’re expressing what you’re really feeling?  Much of our world is not perfectly designed to fit the normal human emotions of grief, rage, and confusion. We know that we can’t always yell in a library or bawl in a Starbucks (although sometimes it happens!) We must often keep relatively composed and hide some of the depth of our emotions everywhere we...

Hi Friend, Happy end of June! As we prepare to transition into July (which seemed to us at the 10.27 Healing Partnership to come so quickly!) we have been reflecting on the learning and community-building we’ve been doing this month. At the 10.27 Healing Partnership, we strive to make our programming, events, and space as accessible as possible. We recognize that the community we...

Hi Friend,   We hope you are well! So far this month we’ve already had some beautiful experiences outside, from walking in the parks with our Walking the Healing Path participants, to holding warm conversations with community members at Canopy Conversations. We hope you’ll brave the heat and mugginess and join us! These experiences were needed as a balance, as  we’ve also...

Noah Schoen is a community organizer, oral historian and co-founder of “Memories of October 27th,” an oral history project that has interviewed over 100 Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers about their life histories and reflections on the October 27th, 2018 synagogue shooting. He is also the Community Outreach Associate for the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, where he works to build...