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Public Awareness of the Shomer Shabbos Vacation Sites Increases
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The public awareness of the importance of frequenting only shomer Shabbos vacation and amusement sites has currently been gaining impetus.

Before visiting a vacation site or amusement site, more and more groups, camps and families check to see if those places are closed on Shabbos and do not trample its sanctity. During recent months, the Vaad HaRabbonim Lemaan Kedushas HaShabbos B'Eretz Yisroel has been making all-out efforts to instill this awareness in the general community. The members of the committee are: Rabbi Avrohom Yeshayohu Fein, Rabbi Moshe Yadler, Rabbi Hillel Weinberg, Rabbi Tzvi Odesser, Rabbi Amir Krispel, Rabbi Shmuel Binyomin Sofer, Rabbi Yosef Deutch. They were appointed to the committee by the maranan verabonon, the gedolei Yisroel.

Special attention was given to a list of places which do not desecrate the Shabbos issued by the Vaad this last week. The Vaad was besieged with questions as to how to ascertain the nature of various sites and their kashrus. The directors and owners of vacation sites are pleased by the response of the chareidi and religious sectors, which encourage and prefer shomer Shabbos companies, while they refrain from visiting places which ignore the sentiments of the religious sector and scorn all that is sacred by operating on Shabbos.

The secretary of this Vaad HaRabbonim relates that without a doubt, public cooperation on this issue, encourages Shabbos observance in country's cities. This, they say is manifested by requests of various vacation and amusement cites to join the circle of Shabbos observers, even if the only motive of the owners of these places is the commercial one of increasing its clientele.

 

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