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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: The assimilated, the frum, and antisemitism
Message-ID: <1160@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 12:16:00 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.1160
Posted: Wed Mar 26 12:16:00 1986
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <1439@mtuxo.UUCP> hfavr@mtuxo.UUCP (a.reed) writes:
>
>In one case, an Armenian Christian, who is a close friend of one of my
>cousins living in Jerusalem, lost an eye when his car was stoned by
>Haredim, while driving through the city one Saturday morning. Now, as
>far as I know there is no Halachic justification for throwing stones
>without, at minimum, making sure that the victim is actually a Jew
>desacrating the Shabbat, rather than a non-Jew ignoring it. Yet every
>week the Haredim throw deadly stones, quite without bothering to check
>whether the car they are stoning is driven by a Jew.

Does Halacha permit throwing stones on Sabbath?  Only within the bounds
of an Eruv, perhaps?

Perhaps Israeli drivers should fight back with rubber bullets.
Get a friend to "ride shotgun".

	Frank Silbermann