photos courtesy of Boyd Loving
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The recent troubles in the Mideast have hit very close to home and so many friends and neighbors have been affected . Imam Mahmoud Hamza and Rabbi Fine led a group of religious leaders and some local elected local officials from the Ridgewood Board of Education and the Village Council in a vigil and press conference bringing together Jewish and Muslim residents in a unified stance of peace and unity. The vigil was keep small and just about neighbors . Imam Mahmoud Hamza said ,”We hope that this message of peace and unity will reverberate in our community and we can be an example to others”
