A well-attended Interfaith Gathering for Prayer and Reflection was held yesterday afternoon at Westminister Presbyterian Church (corner of Northshore and Lyons Bend) for locals to gather and commune in support of peace in Israel and Gaza.

The theme generally was coming together to pray for peace. Finger-pointing and blame throwing were (generally) not engaged in. Rev. Phillips of Westminister appropriately noted in his welcome, the idea was: "Let there be peace, and may it begin with me."

Without undue bragging, I must say that the prayer for peace of my rabbi, Louis Zivic, was right on the mark.

The event was attended (among others) by local Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

I have no idea who organized the gathering, and it seemed to have been publicized purely by word of mouth. To the best of my knowledge, no media was in attendence.

Nonetheless, I thought you might like to know.