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Rabbi on a mission beats speeding ticket
The date of the ticket or the speed Rabbi Jacob Levy was alleged to be traveling in the city didn't come up in the court hearing, The Gazette newspaper said.
Levy, who used to be grand rabbi of Geneva, told the municipal judge he "was going a reasonable speed" after he got a distress call from a mother whose 8-day-old son was bleeding into his diaper.
Levy said he had been trained in Jerusalem as a circumciser, or mohel, and showed the judge his surgical kit as proof, the report said.
The judge asked Levy why the mother hadn't called 911.
"Doctors don't like to treat circumcision cases because the practice is so rare nowadays here -- they prefer to leave it to specialists like me," Levy said.
The judge said he understood the "necessity" of Levy's haste and dismissed the ticket, the newspaper said.
There was no indication of who ultimately treated the infant.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
This news arrived on: 06/18/2008
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06-19-2008 16:07
Cheryl from Boston wrote:
Speeding Ticket
So what he showed his medical kit..is he licenced to speed?? He isn't a police office or ambulance driver, the infant wasn't in his car going to the hospital?? I don't get it....thank God he didn't hit and killed someone!!
06-18-2008 15:24
malc wrote:
WHY? He broke the gentile laws.
How could he help?
The 8 days were the prescribed days to give the most protection to an infant,this is the peak when the blood clots safely.
As he did not perform the circumcision,I fail to see reason why he was able to Circumnavigate the law?
Perhaps I am biased here.
The 8 days were the prescribed days to give the most protection to an infant,this is the peak when the blood clots safely.
As he did not perform the circumcision,I fail to see reason why he was able to Circumnavigate the law?
Perhaps I am biased here.
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