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.”
“[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