[Avodah] What Do French Jews Do On Shabbath?

[Arie Folger via Avodah]

R' Jay Shachter asked how French Jews deal with the increasing number of
buildings with electronic codes for entering through two successive doors.

It depends. Many Shomer Shabbos Jews live in the heavily Jewish areas like
the 19eme arrondissement. There, many buildings still have keys.

In other buildings, technological solutions are used, which I decline to
mention here.

However, you are right that this is a massive problem.

Finally, RJS accused French Jews of taking their synagogues off the web and
the Consistoir of hiding its email address. Well, I just did a search for a
Paris synagogue I know, and it was definitely listed in many sites and also
had its own publicly accessible site. As to the email address, ever since
teh advent of spam, many sites have used web forms instead of email
addresses. This is not a Jewish matter. When I contact a company through
its web site, the same mechanism is used. And whoever tries to contact me
through my web site also has to pass that hoop.

I think you may want to apologize to French Jews. The majority disagrees
with the president of the Marseille Jewish community.


Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger,
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