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Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 7:45am

Elm City may make observing Sabbath easier

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Published Thursday, September 14, 2006
When Daniel Hoffman ’08 goes out on Friday nights, he cannot simply follow his peers, for whom an evening adventure usually involves nothing more than finding some friends and somewhere to go. For observant Jews, Torah law forbids working on the Sabbath, and Talmudic scholars have interpreted that to include carrying an object between “public” and “private” domains — for example, bringing one’s keys from one’s dorm room out onto the streets.
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