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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just churches who do this, by the way -- my synagogue in Cleveland Park has spots on its block where no parking is allowed except on Saturday mornings, and it also gets permission every year to let people park without the proper zone stickers during the Jewish high holy days. (On Porter Street behind it, however, the city does still ticket for parking at expired meters during services.)[/quote]

Let me just say, as a Conservative Jew, I think that is taking the driving leniency just a tad too far, especially for an urban shul - thinking a bit less of Adas.  [/quote]

There are members who live far beyond walking distance, and I don't think most Conservative shuls really honor the prohibition on driving. Plenty of people walk, but you expect people who live in, say, Bethesda to do that?[/quote]

No, but I expect them to either park in the shul lot, or find a way to park on the street under the standard rules without special shabbos only spaces.   Otherwise they should take transit to shul, bike to shul (I have done that to my suburban shul) or just find a nice C shul in MoCo.

Note, the C leniency on driving allows someone who lives outside walking distance to ANY shul to drive to one.  It was never meant to allow people to drive past half a dozen C shuls to get to one they really really like.  We don't pay attention to that, because most lay C Jews don't really follow halacha, and those who do, mostly do not drive on shabbat. [/quote]

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