Tel Aviv, Israel – Guests at an Israeli wedding hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.
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“It’s new in Israel and the world,” Aya Alon Kaufman of the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said. “It’s very convenient … guests can give a gift even if they forget their chequebooks.”
She said couples pay $155 to rent the device, which resembles an automated teller machine, and the recorded funds are transferred into their bank account the next day.
The machine prints out a “deposit” slip with the guest’s name, which can be put into an envelope along with a congratulatory note and inserted into a slot in the device for the couple to retrieve.
Rather than bring boxed gifts, guests at Israeli weddings usually leave cash or cheques in envelopes they slip into a safe placed at the reception hall’s door.
Woah, Tacky
While I can’t see how this is fundamentally different than handing the couple a check (which is socially acceptable), this new “pay ATM” just strikes me as crass and classless.
The Wolf
Where can I get a machine like that to put outside my house?
LIKE SCHOOL ON SUNDAY!!
Cash is King, no excuses
I REALLY THINK THAT THE THE CHOSSON & KALLAH PLACED THE MACHINE IN WEDDING HALL TO MAKE SURE EVRYBODY GIVES A PRESENT.
Does the machine also do Thank you cards?
$100+ – thank you for your gift
$180+ – thank you for your most generous gift
etc
The idea isn t new.
In the ucrainean shul mentioned in the next article they have an ATM machine instead of a Tzedaka box. You choose the ammount and where you want your donation applied to, poor people, maintenence of the shul, school , talmud torah, rabbi salary etc., touch the screen and instantly its transfered from your account to the designated tzedaka account!
Moshiachs tzaiten!!
Soon the schnorrers collecting will also take credit cards,and in the shul entrance there will be ATM so you can get money for the pushke. Ah,modern times! Now there will be different hechsheirim for the various credit card machines.
This is wonderful news.
Now we can talk to go-d in shul, talk to our friends, talk on the cell phone, use the ATM all while davening. How about a shtikel herring mit crackers too?
Never should you use these ATM’s. Oftentimes they are rigged by unscrupulous characters who get hold of your PIN #.