Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work With Jewish Sabbath

The rabbis, scientists and engineers of the Zomet Institute are trying to solve the problems that arise when technology and the Torah collide.
Working from their research facility in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, they create electronic devices — from phones to alarm systems to motorized vehicles — that obey Orthodox Jewish laws about the Sabbath, when even turning an electric current on or off is forbidden.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/business/worldbusiness/02kosher.html?_r=2&ei=5070&emc=eta-1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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