As much as I don't like lawyers, why is the lawyer at fault. I am sure the lawyer did what his client asked. If the lawyer was acting without his clients knowledge, I am sure the Rabbi could file a complaint.
The rabbi forgot how members of a bureacracy work. It was easier for the airport to take down the trees then to fight the lawsuit.
How much would a lawsuit have cost the airport not to include paying the lawyers fees of the rabbi. The airport made their best fiscal decision. I don't blame them. They might take some heat for caving but the airport would not get the majority of the blame.
I don't blame Jews for this incident but do blame the rabbi.
I do wonder how many here on this forum are throwing blame for the trees being taken out of the airport but yet worked take a secular holiday out of the schools. Now who in the Christian right will take the blame for taking Halloween out of public schools? Or is this just putting gasoline on a fire.
Our sensibilities ought to be tempered with tolerance so that we can once again become a community. I have no problems with symbols of Christmas or Hanukkah....or Halloween. Actually, I welcome them gladly and cherish the spirit in which they are celebrated and passed on to the future generations.
Kids love Christmas and Hanukkah and Halloween, and the Fourth of July and Easter and New Years Eve, just as we do and did in the past. These celebrations should never be taken from them, any of them. If only the adult generation appreciates its traditions will they endure; if only the adults would just grow up.