Connecticut condo owner told to remove Jewish religious ornament or face fines
This is blatant antisemitism. A Mezuzah is a small, inconspicuous thing. How is it going to "offend" anybody?
"A Connecticut condominium owner has been told by the complex's management association that she must remove a Jewish religious symbol or face fines, advocates told FoxNews.com.
Barbara Cadranel, an internationally-renown harpsichordist living in Stratford, Conn., contacted the Connecticut Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League earlier this month to report that she had been told by the California Condo Association to remove the mezuzah -- a small object inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah placed on the doorpost of a Jewish family's home -- or face fines of $50 per day, according to ADL's Connecticut Regional Director Gary Jones.
"It's pretty rare," Jones said of disputes between condominium association and owners involving mezuzot. "The obligation to place a mezuzah on the doorframe or doorpost is a right in the Bible. Jewish people everywhere, including those in condominiums, post a mezuzah as a reminder of their religious obligations."
Jones said Cadranel, 60, who could not be reached by FoxNews.com for comment Friday, has retained Nathan and Alyza Lewin of Lewin & Lewin, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that has notified the condominium association that its actions are in violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act.
According to an agreement with its condo owners, the display of items like Christmas wreaths and crosses on doors is allowed, but the display of other items such as mezuzah on doorposts is not, the Jewish Ledger reports.
Jim O'Neill, spokesman for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, said his office had not received a complaint on the matter. "If she files a complaint, we'll certainly look into it," O'Neill told FoxNews.com.
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13 comments:
"A Mezuzah is a small, inconspicuous thing. How is it going to "offend" anybody?"
Funny, that's exactly what Christians say when leftist jews complain about a Nativity scene, school prayer, or the display of the Ten Commandemnts on public property.
Religious quackery makes good entertainment.
Perhaps, but hanging atheists makes for a much better show.
7:00 belongs in the Middle Ages, along with primitive religions.
Anon 4:24-
Explain to me how what the difference is between what the "Primitive Religions" of the Middle Ages did to Atheist beliefs and how the Global Warming and Evolution Thought Police treat Christian beliefs today?
"what the difference is between ... "
One is science based; the other is belief based. I trust science over fairy tales any day.
One is science based; the other is belief based. I trust science over fairy tales any day.
True. And it's pretty easy to spot AGW as being belief based. Evolution is a little harder to spot, but still belief based. I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
"I don't have enough faith to be an atheist" has become an over-used corny reverse-criticism by creationists (which Luke always gets his copy from), who are using the projection principle, since their opinions are based on pure faith, so they presume everybody else must do the same.
Pure scientific research does not proceed on the basis of "faith" in the religious sense. It goes where the evidence leads, whereas religion seeks to interpret evidence to fit its pre-conceived notions (though most religionists don't even bother to consider scientific evidence at all, or just regard it as anti-religion or even the work of the Devil conducted by his atheist agents, even though there are many genuine scientists who are in fact religious or at least deists (like Einstein).
Typical atheist redefining words, like "faith".
Get back to me when you can explain how nothing created everything.
It's only creationists who use the strawman - "explain how nothing created everything" as you well know Luke. Nobody even knows what "nothing" means!
Yes, why doesn't Luke, the so-called Christian here, admit he is actually a fundamentalist aka "Creationist", as his views seem to indicate it.
Nothing. Literally "no thing". Not space, not time. Not matter. That's what the cosmologists say. You know, as in "scientists".
The most basic principle of the scientific method is the principle that for every effect there must be a cause. But if there was "No thing" before the universe came into existence, then there was no cause for the universe (everything).
Sorry, but asking me to throw the scientific method and reason out the window just so you can claim that your position is somehow more reasonable is just plain silly.
Again you presume about other people's position. No human knows what caused the so-called Big Bang (the expansion of space and time that is our Universe) or the cause behind it as there must have been one or at least an explanation. Perhaps it came from another universe or another dimension. The possibilities are numerous, but so far remain speculative. You of course want to ascribe it to "God", but that is just the pathetic "God of the Gaps" argument which says nothing about what that God-cause is, but somehow you can make an unfounded leap to say it's the same tribal war god Jahweh that promised the ancient Hebrews the right to take/steal land from their neighbors etc., and through Paul of Tarsus evolved into the so-called Christian god, all of which makes such a god utterly anthropomorphic.
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