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August 25th, 2013 
Peter Nolan The elevator in a West Side apartment building won’t move automatically for the Chosen People on the Shabbat, leading to complaints from Jews who consider the elevator to be anti-Semitic.
After Jewish pressure, Touro College had planned to make one of two elevators at its upper West Side apartment building a “Shabbat” elevator that would automatically stop at every floor in the six story building from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday, as a way to circumvent the Jewish law barring observers from operating electric switches on Shabbat.
Touro is asking to overturn a decision by the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal that denied the application. The college said its Jewish students occupy 43 of the building’s 82 units.
The building’s tenants object on the grounds they will have to wait longer for an elevator.
In court papers, Touro accused the tenants association of setting a “discriminatory and anti-Semitic tone” by suggesting the students are young and should be able to climb the stairs on the Shabbat.
Source Article from http://www.jewishproblem.com/jews-file-suit-over-anti-semitic-elevator/
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