Freshman Davida Goldman 

“I commemorate 9/11 by trying to remember all the people that were lost and trying to just really think about them and give them a piece of my mind, and show respect.”

Senior Yona Levitt 

“I wouldn’t go out of my way to commemorate 9/11. Obviously understand the significance of the day, since it was such a tragic day in American history. I personally don’t remember the day at all. I was two years old when it happened, however it did affect my family a lot.” 

Seventh-grader Nathan Gershengorn 

“I commemorate 9/11 in that every Sept. 11 I try to stop for a couple minutes to remember the great lives that were lost during those attacks, and how our country is trying to stop something like that from happening again.”

Jewish text teacher Paul Blank 

“[I commemorate] 9/11 in a couple ways, actually. Every year I try to go down to the Newseum or to the Pentagon memorial. This year I’m going to the Pentagon memorial. I also try to do things here in the school as best as possible. In past I used to be in charge of the 9/11 assembly, also in all my individual classes I speak about it and we read obituaries of those who past away on that day.”

Jewish text teacher Jael Goldstein  

“I don’t really have a particular ritual for commemorating it. I might do something with my Z’man Kodesh on Monday, but something since I’ve become a teacher I’ve become particularly conscious of [is] the fact that I was a student in an Upper School-type setting when that happened.”

Sophomore Micah Shul 

“Every year I do take a moment of silence to commemorate the true tragedy that it was. Some years I’ll go to a commemoration and just different ceremonies describing and commemorating what happened on that day.”

Photos by Ilan Cohen