The synagogue sent out an invitation for participation in Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services, and it includes some other events, such as tashlich by a spring, and it tells the invitees to bring food and make a picnic.
Being that the services are going to be held in a public building, a community center, there is some sort of implicit support by City Hall, though the City denies any involvement in the programming or the funding..
source: Kikar
Personally I think they are getting upset about nothing. There is no statement about bringing barbecues and publicly roasting meat on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur. it just says to bring food to tashlich. Maybe that is potato chips and sandwiches or cut up vegetables and fruit.
However, if it is a barbecue, and becomes something more of a public display of chilul rosh hashana or eating publicly on yom kippur (though the invitation makes no reference to food, music and yom kippur), then I dont see why it should be treated any differently, at minimum, than the people who ignore sirens on Yom HaShoah and bbq in the park - and they get attacked annually in the media.
We cannot always control what other people do.. and I don't know why we want to...
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