Newtown Synagogue Starts Fund for Noah Pozner
Noah Pozner Image by Courtesy of the Pozner Family
As the family of Newtown massacre victim Noah Pozner prepared for the 6-year-old’s funeral, the family’s synagogue began collecting money for the Pozners.
Noah Pozner Image by Courtesy of the Pozner Family
Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown, Conn., posted a notice on its website announcing that it was accepting money to help support the Pozners “during this terrible time.” It also recommended two charities for the other victims: United Way of Western Connecticut and Everribbon.com.
Pozner, who was Jewish, was the youngest victim of last Friday’s shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. His funeral – the first of the massacre’s 27 victims – was scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. Monday at the Abraham L. Green & Son Funeral Home in Fairfield, Conn.
Among the messages of condolence pouring in for the victims of the school shooting were letters from Israeli leaders.
“On behalf of the people of Israel, as friends and as parents, we stand with you today in contemplation and grief over the atrocious, incomprehensible massacre of 20 children and six adults – educators – at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Israeli President Shimon Peres wrote to President Obama. “No experience with death can be likened to that of a parents’ loss of their child. No crime is more heinous than the killing of a child.”
Twenty children and six school employees were killed when Adam Lanza, 20, forced his way into the school building and opened fire. Lanza killed himself at the school.
Prior to the school shootings, Lanza, who had attended the Sandy Hook school, killed his mother, Nancy, in the Newtown home they shared.
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