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From: stanford@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanford N Payzer)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Kosher Mazuza?
Message-ID: <150@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:03:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:03:23 1985
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> >The case is more or less irrelevant.  Simple plastic is good enough.
> >Money doesn't make it kosher.  Before the war in Europe, lots
> >of people drilled holes in the doorpost (mezuzah) and slipped the 
> >scrolls in there.
> 
> In fact, in present day Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), I have seen many doorposts
> with a "sunken in" mezuzah. I've even seen it thus in some places in NYC.

On a tour of Hebron in 1977 every doorpost I examined had a slot to hold the
scroll or a larger hole and/or patch where the slot would have been.
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     "..Israeli authorities evicted jewish squatters from the Arab city of
     Hebron.."   ..from yesterday's morning radio news (local CBS and national
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