{"id":327268,"date":"2026-08-22T07:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327268\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:26:06","slug":"show-of-solidarity-during-shabbat-services-at-central-synagogue-following-last-fridays-violent-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327268\/","title":{"rendered":"Show of solidarity during Shabbat services at Central Synagogue following last Friday&#8217;s violent interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MIDTOWN EAST, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; There was a show of solidarity and strength on Friday night at Central Synagogue to counter<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/man-custody-disrupting-services-striking-woman-central-synagogue-midtown-east\/19680291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> last week&#8217;s violent disruption during Shabbat services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch led prayers and stood next to the rabbi as he read from the Torah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tisch also addressed the room, which was packed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;As a proud Jew and lifelong member of this congregation, you have my word that I stand with you in these uncertain and precarious times,&#8221; Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Interfaith leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Reverend A.R. Bernard of the Christian Cultural Center appeared as a group, speaking to the crowd and joining in song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dolan spoke about the experience afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;There&#8217;s this sense of amity and respect and neighborliness and to see that every religion was represented tonight in just solidarity and accompaniment with this cheerful community. I&#8217;m thrilled,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDTOWN EAST, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; There was a show of solidarity and strength on Friday night at Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[123124,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-123124","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}