Unity Bike Ride Brings Jews And Muslims Together

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 22: Burhan Kesici, general secretary of the German Islam Council (C),‎ and Rabbi Shlomo Afanasev (R) prepare to depart from the Brandenburg Gate at the beginning of a 'unity rally' of imams and rabbis riding through the city together on tandem bicycles on March 22, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Organizers of the event hope that the mass demonstration calling for 'tolerance' will counteract what is seen as a decline in the relationship between Muslims and Jews in the country, one bearing a history of government-sanctioned antisemitism that now has to reconcile both attacks against Jews for wearing yarmulkes as well as issues stemming from integrating a large Arab and Turkish minority, against the backdrop of ongoing religious and territorial conflict in the Middle East and consequences of it elsewhere in Europe. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)