Friday Photo: Rosh Hashanah meets Ramadan
JERUSALEM – SEPTEMBER 14: An ultra-Orthodox Jew laughs as he crosses paths with Palestinians passing Israeli police guarding an entrance to the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter September 14, 2007 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Religious Jews leaving morning prayers at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, rubbed shoulders with Muslim worshippers ...
JERUSALEM - SEPTEMBER 14: An ultra-Orthodox Jew laughs as he crosses paths with Palestinians passing Israeli police guarding an entrance to the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter September 14, 2007 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Religious Jews leaving morning prayers at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, rubbed shoulders with Muslim worshippers rushing to the first midday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque as the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincided with the second day of the Jewish New Year festival of Rosh Hashanah. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
JERUSALEM – SEPTEMBER 14: An ultra-Orthodox Jew laughs as he crosses paths with Palestinians passing Israeli police guarding an entrance to the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter September 14, 2007 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Religious Jews leaving morning prayers at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, rubbed shoulders with Muslim worshippers rushing to the first midday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque as the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincided with the second day of the Jewish New Year festival of Rosh Hashanah. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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