Source: The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1084332119294
On May 13, 2004 The Jerusalem Post reported, "Not in our town. That was the message that the people of Billings, Montana sent out to people across the US a decade ago. A hate-group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan had come to the small, predominantly white Protestant Rocky Mountain town unannounced, and started carrying out a series of hate crimes against the small Jewish community... It is a message that Mayor Charles Tooley, here this week as part of the 22nd Jerusalem conference of mayors, said 'never leaves his mind,' as he vividly recalled the story in an interview... The attack that caused the most dramatic shakeup came during Hanukka, when a piece of cinder block was thrown through the bedroom window of a six-year-old Jewish boy who had an electric menora on his windowsill. The child was not in the room, but the attack galvanized and outraged the community, Tooley recalled. Shortly thereafter, Margarette McDonald, executive director of the Montana Association of Churches, came to Tooley's church carrying a sheet of white paper with a photocopy of a menora. She suggested that the pictures be distributed to city churches, photocopied, then taped onto windows and doors across Billings as a measure of solidarity with their Jewish neighbors. Spurred by a core group of activists, including Tooley, the pictures started propping up on the homes of non-Jews throughout the city and on community churches."