Bud Izen wasn\’t prepared for the reaction he received the first time he brought his two girlfriends with him to synagogue in Eugene, Ore.
Jews in Eugene, Ore., persuaded the local human rights commission to suspend for now a resolution condemning Israel for its flotilla raid last year. More than 70 members of the local Jewish community, including officials of the local federation and community relations council, attended the commission\’s meeting Tuesday evening. \”When you act without listening to the other side, you do not act in good faith,\” Rae LaMarche, the president of the Lane County federation, told the meeting, according to the Eugene Register-Guard.
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