Murder at the HaRav Yeshiva

Strangely, although we still sit in Washington for another week and our sons and their wives and kids are in Israel, we have not yet spoken with them about the murder of 8 students yesterday in Jerusalem as they gathered to celebrate the arrival of the joyous month of Adar Bet.
What is there to say? We know that bad news about our family would have come immediately and we know where our families live and what they do and, thank G-d, we have no grandson learning at the HaRav yeshiva. So we sit here feeling the too familiar pain, disgust and anger that follows after inhumane murders.
Rabbi Danny Landes, rosh yeshiva at Pardes, sent a message this morning. When the news came of the murders, Pardes was remembering that five years ago two of their students, Ben Blustein and Marla Bennet, were murdered in the cafeteria at Hebrew University. This shabbat Rav Landes will spend at the HaRav Yeshiva, which had been his yeshiva, and then he will return to Pardes to respond with the community with learning and acts of chesed.
We are eager to be home. Grieving, remembering and carrying on are better done in Israel. So, too, is being angry and seeking to find the leaders that Israel sorely lacks today.