On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:59:29 +0100
"Recliner" wrote:
For example, I was once in a hotel in Jerusalem and on a Friday night,
headed for the lift to go down to the lobby. I noticed a crowd of people
waiting by another lift, but once I hit the button, they were happy to
join me in 'my' lift. Apparently, one lift runs an all-floors stopping
service on the Shabbat, but the others work normally. If a non-Jew like
me pressed the button for one of those lifts, they had no trouble taking
advantage of it. Apparently it's OK for non-Jews to cause work to be
done that benefits Jews, but not for those same Jews to cause it.

So in other words they've come up with a get out clause to get around the
smallprint in some rule no one is forcing them to follow in the first
place. The ****wittedness of humanity knows no bounds.

It's worth pointing out that even in Israel, only a minority of Jewish
citizens take their religion to these extreme lengths. But the
extremists are very intolerant. They block the streets in their areas to

Extremists by definition are intolerant whatever group or cause they belong to.
I think most of them have borderline personality disorders TBH.

B2003