8 Responses

1. I wonder if during the jim crow era they ever arrested a white man for drinking from the black’s water fountain…

2. If I recall, according to their religious laws, if a jew drinks from it then it becomes their version of tamei. If I am correct, I am sympathetic to their situation.

3. searchin345, I believe so, or at least the apartheid did work both ways. But it’s been a few years since I’ve read about the subject that it’ll take me a bit to remember where to find the books.

   At any rate, where’s our Democratic friends and the superhero group called The Squad to protest this racist action?

4. Good, he shouldn’t be there anyway

5. I don’t get the issue here. Obviously, as YWN editors routinely note on every article dealing with har habayis, it is assur for a Yid to go up. Yet, there are many segments of the tzibur, both frum and secular, who do so. However, what is the significance of this water fountain and prohibiting a yid from drinking. Does the water have some special significance to Muslims??

6. besalel wrote: “If I recall, according to their religious laws, if a jew drinks from it then it becomes their version of tamei. If I am correct, I am sympathetic to their situation.”

   If they think Jews (and only Jews) make their water impure, why would you be sympathetic??

7. comments: christians are included. I am sympathetic because religious rules of purity/impurity do not translate very well into our modern notions of discrimination. See, e.g., Niddah. While its interesting that in our laws a live non-jew cannot convey tummah in theirs, Lehavdil, all “infidels” do convey tumah.

8. what in the world are you thinking???????????? A jew CANT GO THERE i love you and everthing But you should never be going there in the first place