According to an email sent to Brookline department heads and Town Meeting members, Brookline's town administrator Chas Carey is reaching out to residents to stop putting up the "Kidnapped" posters on public property in Brookline. Read more.
Janette Hillis-Jaffe, an Orthodox Jew living in Cambridge, produced this wonderful video in support of Senator Barack Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAVn1-gC7cg
Two of the people who helped her with the project live in Brighton.
For more information about the video, visit:
Ron Newman has the numbers: Voters who had questions 5 and 6 on their ballots rejected non-binding referenda on taking city investments out of companies that do business with Israel and demanding Israel let Palestinians return to their ancestral homes.
Especially one featuring a sign showing Israeli soldiers protecting a baby carriage, Borderline writes:
... I don't dispute that terrorists mix in with civilians in the Middle East, but to have this rally supporting the Israeli miltary now -- just days after dozens of innocent women and children were killed by Israeli military incompetence as they huddled in a basement shelter, too afraid to evacuate their village -- is the wrong message to send. ...
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