Jerry Rabinowitz, Family Physician, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania

“We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey 

Eleven Jews were slaughtered in Squirrel Hill on October 27, 2018.  Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz was one of them,  A remarkable obituary of the physician was published a few days later in  the New York Times.

How and why were these 11 at their synagogue on particular sabbath morning.That is a question Thornton Wilder attempts to answer in The Bridge of San Luis Rey,  We can only wonder.  Yet we can honor them and reading the fine NY Times essay is one way to do so.