A local town board will allow the expansion of an eruv to encompass the towns of Quogue and Westhampton on Long Island, New York. On Tuesday night, the Southampton town board announced that it will not appeal a June 30 decision by State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Farneti, who ruled that the ritual boundary —…
Billionaire investor Ira Rennert failed to persuade a federal judge to throw out a jury verdict finding him liable for looting his now-defunct magnesium company to build one of the country’s most expensive homes, on the east end of Long Island, New York. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan on Thursday upheld all but…
It’s another win for the Jews in the Hampton eruv wars. A federal judge has ruled that religious boundary markers called “lechis” may be attached to telephone poles in the Southampton municipality. The decision comes a little over a year after a similar ruling was made in Westhampton beach, and clears all legal obstacles to…
The Rabbinic Council of America has confirmed a Forward report that Rabbi Marc Schneier has been expelled from the Orthodox group. “(The RCA executive committee) reviewed the facts presented to it regarding the conduct of Rabbi Marc Schneier and voted to expel him from his membership,” the Orthodox group said in a statement. The statement…
Rabbi Marc Schneier, the spiritual leader of a tony congregation in the Hamptons, has been expelled from the Rabbinical Council of America, the Forward has learned. The five times married Schneier was quietly expelled from the Orthodox rabbinical group earlier this year in relation to allegations, in 2010, that he had an extramarital affair with…
Tensions rose when opponents argued the eruv’s presence would ruin Southampton — even though they can't see it
A still from The Daily Show’s segment on eruvs, showing an “eruv hat” If Jack O’Dwyer didn’t exist, Jon Stewart might have invented him. You might remember The Daily Show’s hilarious 2011 video report on the bitter controversy surrounding a proposed eruv (religious boundary) in Westhampton Beach, New York. Simply by venting to correspondent Wyatt…
America’s most famous eruv is back in the news — and this time, not simply as the butt of a joke on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show.” In early January, a federal appeals court issued a key ruling concluding that erecting an eruv in Westhampton Beach, New York, would not violate the First Amendment. This…
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