A Chabad rabbi in Seattle expressed regret that his complaint to add a menorah to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport’s display of Christmas trees resulted in the trees’ removal. “I am devastated, shocked and appalled at the decision that the Port of Seattle came to,” Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest said in Monday’s Seattle Times.
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