PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) — At Paterson’s public Eid celebration, there was Middle Eastern music pumping out of the loudspeakers, ice cream being served out of a truck rented for the occasion, and halal meals coming out in rapid succession from a food truck. Kids played in a bouncy house, as a pint-sized train ferried other […]
Like Muslims worldwide, the Paterson Muslim community celebrated Eid during a party marking the end of Ramadan. The war in the Middle East cast a dark and mournful shadow over the day, which city leaders are trying to work through.