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Title: Rabbi appalled by airport's removal of Christmas trees
Source: www.king5.com
URL Source: http://www.king5.com/localnews/stor ... ABairporttreesSW.1663eccf.html
Published: Dec 10, 2006
Author: www.king5.com
Post Date: 2006-12-10 22:04:55 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 3967
Comments: 138

Rabbi appalled by airport's removal of Christmas trees

03:53 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2006

KING Staff and Associated Press

KING

Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky

SEATAC, Wash. - All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.

Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, who made his request weeks ago, said he was appalled by the decision.

"Everyone should have their spirit of the holiday. For many people the trees are the spirit of the holidays, and adding a menorah adds light to the season," said Bogomilsky, who works at Chabad Lubavitch, a Jewish education foundation headquartered in Seattle's University District.

After consulting with lawyers, port staff believed that adding the menorah would have required adding symbols for other religions and cultures in the Northwest. The holidays are the busiest season at the airport, Betancourt said, and staff didn't have time to play cultural anthropologists.

Maintenance workers boxed up the trees during the graveyard shift early Saturday, when airport bosses believed few people would notice.

"We decided to take the trees down because we didn't want to be exclusive," said airport spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt. "We're trying to be thoughtful and respectful, and will review policies after the first of the year."

Bogomilsky had hired a lawyer and threatened to sue if the Port of Seattle didn't add the menorah next to the trees, which had been festooned with red ribbons and bows.

Hanukkah begins this Friday at sundown.

"They've darkened the hall instead of turning the lights up," said Bogomilsky's lawyer, Harvey Grad. "There is a concern here that the Jewish community will be portrayed as the Grinch." (1 image)

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#2. To: robin, lodwick (#0) (Edited)

All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle- Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah

This country is fucked with political correctness and multiculturalist "sensitivity." I am sick of it. We are no longer free. Can anyone recommend a state we could take over, start a new country and seceed? [Preferably someplace without LaRaza brownshirt mexinazis] Regardless of how "religious;y" correct Christmas is, it is a tradition long held by many cultures including ours. Those who attempt to rabidly destroy the entire tradition by removing Christmas trees are assholes.

IndieTX  posted on  2006-12-10   22:09:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: IndieTX (#2)

Can anyone recommend a state we could take over, start a new country and seceed?

Antarctica. Seriously, it's off the beaten path, there's very few people there now and only hardasses need apply.

Ideally, the location of a colony would be away from the established research bases, with land exposure (as opposed to strictly ice), good geothermal gradient, etc...

Axenolith  posted on  2006-12-11   9:48:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Axenolith (#13)

Ideally, the location of a colony would be away from the established research bases, with land exposure (as opposed to strictly ice), good geothermal gradient, etc...

Iceland?

who knows what evil  posted on  2006-12-11   12:23:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: who knows what evil, Axenolith, Diana, randge (#34)

Iceland's good.

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