Observant Jewish residents of The Colony, a high-rise in Fort Lee, New Jersey, are suing the board for barring employees from pushing elevator buttons for those forbidden to do so on the Jewish Sabbath. (Screenshot from Google Maps/ via JTA)
JTA When Paul and Helaine Kurlansky first moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 2019, they were excited at the prospect of hosting their children and grandchildren, who lived in a nearby US town, for Shabbat and holidays.
They chose The Colony, a high-rise co-op building, in large part for the accommodations made for the Shabbat-observant Jews like themselves who lived there. Orthodox Jews don’t press electrical switches on the Sabbath and the Kurlanskys he’s 68, she’s 67 live on the 32nd floor.
NJ co-op owners want an elevator they can ride on Shabbat They re suing the board that said no – The Forward
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NJ co-op owners want an elevator they can ride on Shabbat They re suing the board that said no
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