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.