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"Silent Night" for high school carolers
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A California high school choir was recently told to stop singing Christmas songs during an ice skating show due to possibly offending Sasha Cohen, who is Jewish.The choir was at an ice skating rink where Cohen was performing and had begun to sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" when a city employee and a police officer approached and asked for them to stop singing.
Cohen, who won the silver medal at the 2006 Olympics, had already finished performing and was signing autographs when the incident occurred. Cohen did not make the request for the Christmas carols to be stopped.
A city employee decided on her own to ask the choir to stop, but did not discuss her plan with her supervisor. The mayor called the event "unfortunate" and issued an apology to the teens.
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12-19-2006 @ 3:26PM
Ginny said..."A city employee decided on her own to ask the choir to stop, but did not discuss her plan with her supervisor. "
Busy body! This crapola with political correctness is really just getting on my nerves. People can't possibly be as sensitive as some people think.
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12-19-2006 @ 3:18PM
Just Me said...Sasha Cohen is half Jewish, she celebrates Chanakah with one side of her family, and Christmas with the other side.
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12-19-2006 @ 4:45PM
Stephanie said...LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen was "stunned" to learn that a U.S. high school choir had been ordered to stop singing Christmas carols at a holiday show because she is half-Jewish, her mother said on Thursday.
Cohen, who is half-Christian and "celebrates everything" during the holidays, learned only through news reports that the choir had been cut off on her account, the 22-year-old skater's mother and manager said.
"Sasha was stunned. We both thought the voices were just lovely, they were doing such a wonderful job," Galina Cohen told Reuters. "Christmas carols are part of celebrating the holiday season."
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12-20-2006 @ 10:47AM
Michelle said...I always love when people are "half-Christian." "Um, I believe in Jesus some of the time (especially when I can have a tree with lots of presents under it that definitely symbolize my beliefs), but the other times I'm still waiting for Moschiach." I think I even saw her wearing one of those ridiculous Kaballah strings on her wrist.
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