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Headline: NJ mayor personally asks family to remove 'offensive' Christmas decorations. Article: That they put in front of their Jewish neighbor's house.
TENAFLY, N.J. (PIX11) – The Alvator family, joined by some neighbors, set out to recreate a tradition they themselves had grown up with.
After they say they checked with the local fire and police departments and were given the green light, 300 decorative luminaries were lined along their street on Joyce Road on Christmas Eve.
It was nice for the family to pick them up when asked. An immature move to skip the neighbor that complained. I find it surprising they thought it was okay to violate town ordinances.
Kind of weak for the neighbor to run and tattle to the mayor. Why he didn't just approach him himself? If you're offended by a candle, so be it. Just blow it out. This neighbor sounds like an attention grabbing wh**e.
Kind of weak for the neighbor to run and tattle to the mayor. Why he didn't just approach him himself? If you're offended by a candle, so be it. Just blow it out. This neighbor sounds like an attention grabbing wh**e.
Both, the Alvator family and the neighbor are attention grabbing...
Headline: NJ mayor personally asks family to remove 'offensive' Christmas decorations. Article: That they put in front of their Jewish neighbor's house.
TENAFLY, N.J. (PIX11) – The Alvator family, joined by some neighbors, set out to recreate a tradition they themselves had grown up with.
After they say they checked with the local fire and police departments and were given the green light, 300 decorative luminaries were lined along their street on Joyce Road on Christmas Eve.
I read the ordinance, the lights are not signs or anything else explained by the ordinance.
But you failed to read the preceding cases. Why do you think it's okay to have Christmas lights but not Jewish lights? It's hypocritical of you to allow one but not the other.
But you failed to read the preceding cases. Why do you think it's okay to have Christmas lights but not Jewish lights? It's hypocritical of you to allow one but not the other.
have them both, and since the lights that were put into place by both Christians and Jews alike, I do not find it to be hypocritical.
have them both, and since the lights that were put into place by both Christians and Jews alike, I do not find it to be hypocritical.
But the entire point was that there is already a precedent in the town not to have lights in order to celebrate a Jewish holiday. The mayor was only following through on the precedent set before he was even the mayor. If Christians wanted to have their celebratory lights up during Christmas, perhaps they should not have complained when Jewish people wanted to have their celebratory lights up during Hanukkah. Christians set the precedent... they should follow it.
What's hypocritical is that you think it's out of line for a mayor to tell Christians not to keep the lights up when those same Christians complained about Jewish people putting up similar lights. Your bias is evident.
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