By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent: N.Y. court to rule on dispute between warring Chabad wings
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Title:Reply to Mark of Lewiston (Post No. 2)
Name:Johnny Weintraub
City: Sugar LandState: Texas USA
I am in complete agreement with you. This issue has no place in secular American courts. My solution is for the owners of 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, to have the offending poster removed (even if it has to be done at 3:00 A. M.,) and then employ security guards to insure that the poster is not replaced or duplicated. I would not want to find a statute of Mohammed inside of my synagogue in Houston, Texas, when I go there to pray. As to vocal disruptions, in Texas there is a law against disorderly conduct (a criminal statute,) and I would assume that New York also has something similar. I would not like having to listen to "Jesus Loves Me" when we take out the Sefer Torah tomorrow morning (Shabbat.) The messianists can build their own synagogue somewhere else if they refuse to abide by the rules of the management (owners.) Simply put, the owners of 770 Eastern Parkway need to enforce proper decorum without secular court intervention (except for criminal acts.)