That baby born in the manger prevails. He must know someone pretty high up.
Christmas Trees Return to SeaTac Airport
The Christmas trees are back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Maintenance staff worked overnight to restore the 14 plastic trees that had been removed during the weekend because of a rabbi’s threat to sue over the lack of a menorah in the airport’s holiday decor…The rabbi “never asked us to remove the trees; it was the port’s decision based on what we knew at the time,” Patricia Davis, president of the Port of Seattle commission, said in a statement late Monday.
However, port officials learned on Monday that Bogomilsky’s organization would not file a lawsuit over this year’s display, Davis said…”We are not going to be the instrument by which the port holds Christmas hostage,” [the rabbi’s lawyer] said. He said the rabbi had received “all kinds of calls and e-mails,” many of them “odious,” over the issue.
Well, there you go. Welcome back Christmas trees.
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Not that you’d ever get an honest answer from a lawyer, but it would be interesting to know how the Rabbi’s congregation responded to his chutzpah.
The Rabbi now knows that Christians do not always turn the other cheek when offended.
There is a great article about this from Chabad at http://www.chabad.org/455712