http://www.metafilter.com/tags/menorahs Posts tagged with 'menorahs' at MetaFilter. Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:49:59 -0800 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:49:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47820/Not%2Din%2DOur%2DTown In 1993, a series of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/niot/about/niot1.html#top">racist incidents </a>plagued Billings, Montana. When a brick was thrown through 5 year old Issac Schnitzer's menorah-decorated window, the predominantly non-Jewish city responded in a remarkable way: the local paper printed thousands of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/niot/about/media/menor2.jpg">menorahs,</a> and people displayed them in their windows as a gesture of solidarity. Since then, the story has inspired <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807511536/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">a book</a>, <a href="http://www.papercandles.com/Press.aspx">a play,</a><a href="http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/notinour.htm"> a song</a> and a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/niot/">movement</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47820 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:49:59 -0800 Billings hatecrimes menorahs Schnitzer Biblio