The silence of prayer, shattered in a synagogue bloodbath

An Ultra-orthodox man prays at the scene of an attack in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JACK GUEZ)

Congregants and eyewitnesses describe the attack in the Har Nof synagogue, as congregants were jarred from the silent Amidah prayer into a scene of carnage