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...Both Hillel and SAS held peace vigils this past week in response to rising tensions in the Middle East...
...tensions in the Middle East escalated yesterday, members of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Society for Arab Students (SAS) said they were planning events to maintain positive relations between the two communities even though plans for a joint vigil earlier this week failed due to differing objectives...
Joey Shabot '01, former co-chair of Hillel's interethnic committee, approached SAS representatives last week about the possibility of a joint vigil to mourn casualties in recent conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians...
...also said SAS and Hillel would discuss in the coming weeks how the two groups would be working together on campus...
...President Rayd K. Abu-Ayyash '01 said the vigil was solely for mourning the violence and was not political in nature. He noted that the ASA and Harvard Hillel held separate vigils, but said holding separate events wasn't a sign of antagonism between the two groups...