[PRCo] Re: Mother, Europe, Pittsburgh.....

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Synagogues?  Certainly in Squirrel Hill and Mount Lebanon.  Friday only car
> stops?  I haven't the foggiest idea.  I don't think using a trolley would have
> been permissable during the Sabbath to orthodox jews.   If that is the answer
> you want, I have an orthodox friend in Jerusalem whom I could ask.

Friday only car stops, or at least signs for them. I know where there were
synagogues.

Mt Sinai Medical Center in New York has "sabbath elevators" which stop at
every floor without the need to touch a button on the sabbath only, but I
will confess to not being all that curious about it. Perhaps someone else
is.