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Israeli rabbis rule against `Shabbat elevators’

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JERUSALEM (RNS) Four influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel have decreed that Jews may not use so-called "Shabbat elevators," which enable observant Jews to use elevators without breaking rules against manual labor on the Sabbath. This is the first time a group of s...

Topics: Culture, Science
Beliefs: Buddhism, Christian - Catholic, Christian - Orthodox, Christian - Protestant, Judaism

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