IN BRIEF
Vigil group critical
of City Council
Members of the Jewish Witnesses For Peace and Friends passed a resolution Sunday night criticizing the Ann Arbor City Council for condemning their vigils outside Beth Israel Congregation, 2000 Washtenaw Ave.
Organization members presented the resolution to the council at its Monday meeting. It called the council's criticism "ignorant and misguided."
In October, council members voted 8-0 to condemn the protests, stating that freedom to worship in peace is a right of all people.
It was passed to condemn people holding political protests outside "houses of worship."
About a dozen members of the Jewish Witnesses For Peace and Friends have shown up every Saturday for the last 17 months to picket on the sidewalks outside Beth Israel Congregation. They do it to protest what they call Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land and the treatment of the Palestinians.