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Sleep deprived? Devices can help to
ease breathing.
flews in the digital age
Rabbi Jason Miller I Contributing Writer
-books became the dominant format for adult
fiction in 2011 surpassing hardcover books
and paperbacks according to the BookStats
annual survey. We are increasingly choosing
to read our novels, magazines,
newspapers and even chil-
dren's books on e-readers and
tablets. But is it permissible to
do this on the one day of the
week that Judaism commands
us to unplug?
Rabbi Daniel Nevins, a
Conservative rabbi who is the
dean of the rabbinical school at
the Jewish Theological Seminary
in New York and the former rabbi
of Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills, recently published
a teshuvah (religious response)
regarding the use of electrical and
electronic devices on the Shabbat.
In the teshuvah, which was passed
overwhelmingly by the Committee
on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS),
Nevins ultimately ruled that while the
operation of electrical circuits is not
inherently forbidden according to the
laws of Shabbat, the use of electricity
to power an appliance which per-
forms melachah (the category of
forbidden activity on Shabbat)
with the same mechanism and
intent as the original manual
labor is forbidden in the Torah.
Nevins answered some questions
about his research and how he
arrived at his legal decision.
Down With
Demonizing
Israel Action Network
takes dead aim at network
that delegitimizes Jewish state.
Robert Sklar I Contributing Editor
here's a distinct divide between legitimately debating
and criticizing Israeli government policy and demon-
izing Israel by questioning its
existence as a Jewish and democratic
state. Battle lines are drawn with each
side represented by a determined net-
work of agents to plead its case and
defend its beliefs.
"We are a network fighting a network','
says David Dabscheck, deputy manag-
ing director of Israel Action Network
(IAN), a two-year-old initiative designed David Dabscheck
to tap into the resources of the Jewish
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