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# Strictly speaking it is permissible to send an email on Friday afternoon from America to Israel when it is already [[Shabbat]] in Israel or on Saturday night from New York to California where it still is [[Shabbat]] but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. <ref> [http://www.ou.org/webcast_kosher Rav Hershel Schachter] (OU Kosher Webcast, 2011, min 9-13) ruled that strictly speaking it's permissible but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. </ref>However, one may not send | # Strictly speaking it is permissible to send an email on Friday afternoon from America to Israel when it is already [[Shabbat]] in Israel or on Saturday night from New York to California where it still is [[Shabbat]] but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. <ref> [http://www.ou.org/webcast_kosher Rav Hershel Schachter] (OU Kosher Webcast, 2011, min 9-13) ruled that strictly speaking it's permissible but it's praiseworthy to avoid it.</ref> | ||
# However, one may not send an email to a non-observant Jew who may look at it on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Practical Laws of [[Shabbat]] (Rabbi Rafael Soae, vol 1, pg 170-1) writes that it's permissible unless one is sending the email to a non-observant Jew who may look at it on [[Shabbat]] in which case it's forbidden because one will be encouraging violation of [[Shabbat]]. </ref> | |||
# It is permitted to send a fax from Israel to America when it is no longer Shabbat in Israel.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Shabbat 5752 v. 2 p. 243 307:3:9 is lenient to send a fax from Israel to America after Shabbat in Israel unless he is sending it to a non-observant Jew who will move the paper on Shabbat or read something that he's not supposed to read on Shabbat.</ref> | |||
==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ||
