metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I did not say nor imply that.Are the Jews that live in New York delighted that they're not obligated to keep the Sabbath, since you say it's only for those living in Eretz Yisrael?
The issue of those of us living in the diaspora relates to our dispersion whereas we still had the obligation of keeping Shabbat. Since travel by ship from Europe to the Americas, for example, did not involve a change in which day was which, it was not difficult for us to keep the same pattern.