Jewish and Palestinian Muslim communities in the United States remain on edge a week after the brutal attack by Hamas militants on Israeli civilians and Israel's subsequent reprisals in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Friday services, highlighted by the main weekly prayers for Muslims and the start of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown, were the first since the massacre. Mosques and synagogues beefed up security as tension ran high in both communities.
"We're not going to cancel Shabbat," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis. "We're not going to cancel Jewish life." "And meanwhile, hundreds of innocent Palestinians are also losing their lives, trapped in Gaza as the war is just beginning." In the Natomas neighborhood across town, Muslim worshippers at the Tarbiya Institute held special prayers for those who had lost loved ones, and heard a sermon on how to respond spiritually to conflict and trauma.
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