Kosher electricity - i.e., GOY Power!

If you can't re-interpret a law to suit your needs - get around it!

Fifty years after a rabbinical ruling made it sacrilegious for orthodox Jews to use mains power on the Sabbath, Israel's national grid has come up with a bright idea for the observant: kosher electricity.
The £6 million scheme [!!!], announced last week, will light up lives in highly religious neighbourhoods across Israel, where families have traditionally relied on meagre generator power or even spirit lamps on the holiest day of the week.

The religious ban [was] imposed because Jewish technicians at Israel's national electricity company work on the holy day, contrary to Torah law.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not knocking the rule - everyone's entitled to live by their own laws (and this one seems perfectly harmless).

Nevertheless, this is a rather sneaky way of 'observing' it and in the process israelis exploit Palestinians (i.e., 'goys') left impoverished by decades of their brutal military occupation.

To overcome the problem, the 50-year-old father of 16 children, Mr Moshkovitz, has been one of an unlikely troop of ultra-orthodox electricians who have for years maintained generators to power religious districts on the Jewish day of rest.

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Next to the generator lies a greasy mattress and a box of tools for emergency repairs. But they do not belong to Mr Moshkovitz, who, as an orthodox Jew . . . [they] belong to a Palestinian.

"We have a goy Arab who sleeps here every Sabbath," said Mr Moshkovitz, using the Jewish term for non-Jews.

Now the electricity company will also start producing "kosher electricity", using so-called "Sabbath-goys" to do the work. "We will automate some processes but we will also employ 150 non-Jews to work on the Sabbath," said Elad Sasi, from the Israeli infrastructure ministry.

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"We have wanted to close these generators for years, because the orthodox don't have a licence to run them and they are dangerous," he said. "Instead of doing it by force, we have come up with a peaceful solution instead."

Use Goys! And make them sleep on a greasy mattress!

But the £6 million price tag has led to complaints that Israel's orthodox Jews, who are spared otherwise obligatory military service, are being pandered to by the government. In recent weeks the religious community, which makes up almost 10 per cent of Israel's seven million population, has forced a string of leading companies to adopt religious business practices.
Egged, the national bus company, has recently begun to segregate buses by gender on certain routes so as not to offend the strict sensibilities of the religious community.

Now, I have nothing against conservative values.

But, why are Muslims decried as fundamentalist, fanatic and repressive for segregating men and women, while Jews who do the same are considered pious and kosher?

Another thing I find distasteful is that israelis worry about orthodox Jewish sensibilities when it comes to Jewish women, yet are okay with trafficking in non-Jewish women as sex slaves.

Double standard anyone?

"I'm partially happy about this 'kosher' electricity," said Mr Moshkovitz, as he checked over the generator. "But I'm sure Jews will still be supervising the Arabs at the electricity company on Sabbath."

'Can't trust them dumb goys to do the job right.'