Amid Temple Israel horror, a small act of kindness — and pizza in Michigan

In lockdown and confusion and fear following an attack at nearby Temple Israel, the staff at Soul Café made pizza — cheese, mushroom, and margherita.

As dozens of police cars and fire trucks and ambulances screamed outside and bomb detection teams arrived at the Jewish synagogue, Soul Café workers emptied the shop’s pastry shelves onto a plastic cart and filled the shelves with Vitaminwater, too.

Four blocks away, there would be children in crisis, they knew. And there would be hungry first responders on the scene, where authorities say a man drove his vehicle into the synagogue but died after a confrontation with on-site security guards.

It was the end of lunch rush, and the pizza oven was still set at the perfect temperature, so they kept cooking — and soon delivered food to nearby Shenandoah Country Club, where parents were reuniting with children who had been relocated from Temple