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27 March 2011

That's a right kosher pickle

Yeshai Kutoff was house-proud, having bought a home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for his family of five. And as an Orthodox Jew, he bought push-button locks for the doors — an accommodation for the Sabbath, when many of the devout do not carry keys. But a neighbor soon told him that the locks he had bought could be opened by a powerful magnet costing about $30. It would obviously bother me if I had a lock like that and other people could easily figure it out, and Mr. Kutoff did not buy a magnet to see for himself because it obviously doesn’t interest him to know how to break into his own house. And besides, the Sabbath prohibition on doing work would obviously extend to a push-button system like Mr. Kutoff's, so I think both issues could have been better accommodated by using something like a retinal scanning system which would automatically open the door if everything checked out with no input from any family member.

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