Two and a half years after Canada’s trademark registrar legally protected a stylized menorah used by a Christian group that proselytizes Jews, a federal court judge has reversed the decision.
Officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress, which had sought a judicial review of the matter after the registrar gave the Chosen People Ministries exclusive right to a menorah design in November 1999, expressed satisfaction with the ruling.
The congress said the ministries’ claim to its menorah design as an “official mark” was “scandalous, offensive to Canadians and deceptive.”
“In our view, the menorah is a universal Jewish symbol, and it is one that should not be claimed by any organization in particular, and certainly not an organization created for the express purpose of converting Jews to Christianity,” said Manuel Prutschi, national director of community relations for the congress.
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