Orthodox Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with....

[and-justice-for-all]

...automatic hallway light..

A Jewish couple are suing their neighbours in a block of flats, saying an automatic security light is keeping them prisoner in their home because it forces them to break their Sabbath rules.

Dr Dena Coleman and husband Gordon claim they cannot leave their holiday flat on the Sabbath because when they do they automatically trigger the light in the communal hallway - contravening a religious ban on turning on electrical items from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday because it constitutes 'creating fire'....

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193357/Jewish-couple-sue-neighbours-imprisoning-automatic-hallway-light.html

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Now that is fucking hilarious!!!! :rofl:

[Warpy]

1. There's no nut like a religious nut

However, I have little sympathy, being well aware of the employment of the "Shabbat goy" by many pious families. Since the light itself is doing the work, it is out of their control, something like that Shabbat goy who fetches the paper before somebody steals it and turns the lights on or off.

[onager]

6. And there are the Muslim Shabbat goys...

When I was living in Egypt, my favorite tour guide (a Muslim) told me her grandmother had owned a 3-story apartment building in Alexandria. It had Muslims living on 1 floor, Coptic Xians on another, and Jews on another.

Because of the Sabbath rules, she said the Muslim and Xian kids in the building would often run necessary errands for the Jewish neighbors. Sometimes they got paid, sometimes they just did it out of goodness.

And yes, it IS impossible to escape this cliche--when her grandma was sick, her Jewish neighbors brought her soup.

That must have been before 1967, since Nasser drove most of the Jews and "foreigners" out of Egypt after the Six Day War. The foreigners were Alexandria's remaining Greek and Italian communities. Including families who had lived in Egypt for generations, among all three groups. ("Remaining" because he had already purged the "foreigners" and Jews once, after the 1956 Suez Crisis.)

The exiles were given about 2 hours to pack, by most accounts, and escorted to the docks by police where they were put on ships.

This is a pretty good book about 1 Jewish family in Cairo who were exiled in 1963. The author is a reporter at the WSJ nowadays:

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado

http://www.amazon.com/Man-White-Sharkskin-Suit-Familys/dp/0060822120

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Idiots

[pink-o]

3. Oh, Please! The restrictions are in TOUCHING the light switch!

This couple is just trying to get some $$$. Listen, my Great-Grandfather was an Orthodox Rabbi with a huge congregation in Baltimore. My dad told me that every Yom Kippur they would pay a gentile to turn the lights on in the Synagogue. We used to joke that Jews invented "The Clapper" so that it wouldn't be necessary to shell out any more Shekels for that little task!

Anyway, my people are incredibly superstitious! I'm very glad they fought long and hard for said superstitions, because otherwise I wouldn't be around to debunk them! But seriously: do these 2 think they're gonna get anything from this? A free therapy session maybe...?

[NMMNG]

4. Teh Stoopid....it burns.

[progressoid]

5. Oy Vey.