Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH â Imagine wanting to complete an important task but not having the ability to do it because of personal limitations when, unexpectedly, a friend offers assistance.
But why would that person volunteer to help?
Because that's what friends do.
"That's What Friends Do" is also the title of a recently published children's book by Cantor Steven Stoehr that aims to instill the importance of being a helpful and caring friend in addition to accepting those who are different in the wake of the Oct. 27, 2018, massacre at Tree of Life synagogue.
"It wasn't so much that I wanted to teach kids about the sad massacre in Pittsburgh and the pain of that," Stoehr said in a phone interview. "I wanted to take the necessary message of that day and try to spread tolerance and peacefulness."