# Can't place an order on a website because of...a Jewish holiday?

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**Created:** [May 18, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-place-an-order-on-a-website-because-of-a-jewish-holiday/942395 "2021-05-18T20:59:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-place-an-order-on-a-website-because-of-a-jewish-holiday/942395/21 "2021-05-19T17:24:18Z")

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I don’t recall that message on the top (I may have missed it). The notification came up only after I had filled my shopping cart and clicked “checkout”. I placed my order today with no problems.

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**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-place-an-order-on-a-website-because-of-a-jewish-holiday/942395/22 "2021-05-19T23:36:02Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> I don’t know about that, but the UCLA Medical Center has a Sabbath elevator, which runs all the time on Sabbath, stopping at each floor, so you can use it without pushing buttons and doing any work.

Is this Westwood? My sister worked at the Santa Monica hospital, and she thought they had a Sabbath elevator there, too. But she couldn’t remember for sure…she might have been remembering the Westwood one.

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