The Port of Seattle, which had been battered internationally for removing 14 Christmas trees last week in response to a rabbi's threat of a federal lawsuit, began reinstalling the displays Monday night.
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Davis said Bogomilsky never asked the port to remove the "holiday trees" -- the agency's staff does not refer to them as Christmas trees -- and expressed appreciation for the rabbi's willingness to work with the Port and other community and religious leaders to develop a plan for next year's holiday decorations at the airport.
Bogomilsky, director of Northwest Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic Orthodox group, reiterated Monday that he never asked the airport to remove the Christmas trees and had no intention of offending anyone. In withdrawing the threat of litigation, he said, "the word 'lawsuit' is a tremendously bad word."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/295604_trees12.htmlIs the war on X-mas over yet?????
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