From Rabbi Sol's description of the meeting of the zoning board it seems to me that there was indeed discrimination--the presence of an angry mob of 200 people who shouted down the hospital director's argument in favor of the Shabbos house could hardly have allowed any other outcome: the board may have seen the response as that of a community unified in its opposition or may simply have feared for their own safety had they approved the facility. I find it hard to believe that such a facility placed on a block where there were no other single family houses could have attracted much actual nseghborhood opposition. It seems more likely that the crowd consisted mostly of an anti-semitic rabble.

--seed(charleskratz)