Court hands secular victory in ban on prayers in Jerusalem home
Secular residents of Jerusalem's Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood chalked up a victory against their ultra-Orthodox neighbors Thursday when a court barred prayer services in a residential apartment...The court blocked minyans - prayer quorums - from convening in a private home, even for small, closed groups only on the Sabbath. Judge Tamar Bar Asher-Zaban rejected the ultra-Orthodox residents' request that she revoke interim orders she issued a week earlier against the services.
"Since it is designated for residential use only, past use for non-residential purposes deviates from the permitted," she ruled. She also ruled that holding services at the house violates the Planning and Building Law.
...the legal advisor to the Jerusalem Municipality, attorney Yossi Havilio, who received complaints from residents of Hantke Street, argued that holding prayers in the house is a violation of the property's intended use.
"If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck," he said, declaring he would file an indictment against the tenant.
The neighbors testified that 40 people came to worship at the house, creating a disturbance...
What ever happened to the small, quiet voice (verse 12)?
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