That rabbi who succeeded in getting fifteen Christmas trees banned from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport might be attracting rousing cheers from some Muslims, a secular busybody or two, pushy atheists and the ACLU, but at least one Israeli Jew finds his behavior antithetical to the Hebrew bible.
"I would recommend that the learned rabbi…check [the] Torah, there definitely must be a mention of ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (by Moses, I believe?) or, in simpler words: ‘What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man’ (Hillel). Unless there was a new edition I am not aware of."
Meanwhile, some Christmas trees are reappearing on airline counters at the airport. And the Orthodox rabbi, Elazar Bogomilsky, says he didn’t mean to be a grinch, although he did threaten to sue. He only wanted a Hannuka menorah, in honor of the Festival of Lights which begins Friday, to have equal time with the trees, but airport officials chose to remove the trees, instead.
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