I wonder...
Would a native tree, flocked in white "snow", with small white lights for ice crystals, pass the PC test? People are free to see it as a Seattle winter display, or a humble Christmas tree.
IMO, Christmas trees have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus, and everything to do with marketing for mass consumption. The hypocracy of this particular rabbi, or anyone else that wants to make issue of how the winter holidays are experienced or expressed, clearly need to spend their time in more useful ways. Holiday trees in public places would be a great place to deliver canned goods for the food banks in the local area, for example.
It seems an easy solution to an invented problem to me.
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