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Comments (1)No matter how that vote goes next Wednesday at the Associated, it cannot mean the separation of one part of the community from the other. Twelve years ago, there was a tremendous amount of pride among the Orthodox that the JCC Owings Mills opening was overturned. It wasn’t just here, it was across the nation. I was sitting in a suburban Detroit congregation, and this was the focus of the rabbi’s sermon with the inference of how Baltimore was the example for the nation. May I suggest that how we come out of Wednesday’s vote is an opportunity to again be that “example for the nation.” I suspect that this time the vote will pass. Where we’ll be as a community the day after the vote, and the day after that and the day after that. This is what… read more
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JCC Open or Closed, We Can Still Be The Example
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Phil, the real question for those of us in Park Heights is whether or not we can still in good conscious be members of the JCC if it is open on Shabbos. I’m not trying to play sour grapes, this is a real question. If we are members of the JCC and our money (even if we live in Park Heights) is being used in the maintenance and upkeep of a place that is in violation of Shabbos, does that make us in violation of Shabbos. This is an important question that any Shomer Shabbos Jew must ask himself or his Rabbi. It would be sad to see much of our community give up their membership to the JCC over this with the brilliant minds at the Board of the JCC thinking this was a great idea as it would bring more people in. Its called the law of unintended consequences and I suspect that the Board of the JCC and the Associated does not realize how much of a can of worms they have opened.
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