Rabbi Victor Urecki had welcomed the parade name change as good for Charleston, home to about 250 Jewish families. By 10 a.m. on Oct. 10, the third morning after the announcement, Mr. Kercheval’s radio show had become the theater of war. “It has been an amazing process, an enlightening process the last two days,” she began. But let me say this: I respect everyone’s individual freedoms to bring that to my doorstep.”The Winter Parade was no more, she announced. We respect the right to celebrate Christmas as they see it should be.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2019 07:52 UTC