Penn State Hillel director bringing lessons of Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh to job

(JNS) - The mass shooting at Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, in which 11 Jewish worshippers were killed, took place over parents' weekend at the University of Pittsburgh.

Robyn Markowitz Lawler, who was then working at the Pitt Hillel, had been fielding questions from parents about where they could go to Shabbat services, and she and her staff had told them about Tree of Life.

"When I got the phone call in the morning that there was an active shooter in Squirrel Hill, it was devastating," Markowitz Lawler, 39, told JNS. "I just remember collapsing on the f...