[SJackson]

Sorry, Rabbi, but the Menorah, like the Cross or a Nativity Scene, is an overtly religious symbol and Christmas tress are not....If you want the Jewish equivalent of Christmas trees put up at the airport, you are going to have to settle for giant dreidels.

I would agree, but the courts have consistantly disagreed with that position for decades. Both have religious and secular characteristics, I admit the secular for the Menorah (and Creche) is beyond me.

The dreidel is sometimes suggested. Personally I think it would be a poor choice, given it's origin in religious persecution. In at least one case, Allegheny I believe, the court rejected it because a large dreidel would look "silly". Go figure.

[Polybius]

Sorry, Rabbi, but the Menorah, like the Cross or a Nativity Scene, is an overtly religious symbol and Christmas tress are not....If you want the Jewish equivalent of Christmas trees put up at the airport, you are going to have to settle for giant dreidels.

I would agree, but the courts have consistantly disagreed with that position for decades.

Be that as it may, that does not change the fact that we are right and the Courts are wrong. :-)

The way I interpret the First Amendment, the Free Excercise Clause does allow the public display of overtly religious symbols such as a Nativity, a Menorah or a Koran as long as no religion is specifically prohibited.

Once the Courts take it upon themselves to declare that a Menorah is "secular" and allowed but a Creche is "religious" and needs to be excluded, that crosses the line into arbitrary judicial tyranny that the Founding Fathers would be appaleded at.

Common sense dictates that Nativity Scenes, Menorahs and Korans are religious symbols and that Christmas trees, Santa Claus, dreidels and latkes are not.