It’s a fence, but it doesn’t exist six days out of the week. It’s a symbolic extension of the home, but not an extension of private property. It’s an ingenious legal loophole, but it’s been Jewish law for 1,500 years. It’s not a riddle, it’s an eruv: a boundary used by Orthodox Jews to expand…
The country’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization is rallying to support a controversial Jewish religious boundary known as an eruv, which officials in two New Jersey towns have demanded be removed. The New Jersey branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said local resistance to the boundary amounted to religious intolerance, NewJersey.com reported. The eruv…
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish group has sued a town in New Jersey for ordering it to remove an eruv, or religious boundary, from utility poles in the town. The Bergen Rockland Eruv Association and two residents of Rockland County on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Mahwah, saying the town is…
A controversial ritual boundary built by Orthodox Jews in the suburban New Jersey town of Mahwah has been vandalized —and police are investigating the incident as a bias crime. The damage to the enclosure, called an eruv, is being probed as a bias incident because of the religious nature of the installation, NewJersey.com reported. The…
The New Jersey hamlet of Mahwah has become the latest flashpoint in tensions between locals and a growing Orthodox population in the far northeast corner of the state along the border with New York. A symbolic boundary that allows religious Jews to carry objects outside on the Sabbath, called an eruv, is at the heart…
More than 200 residents of the New Jersey suburb of Mahwah packed a local park Monday night to celebrate what speakers called a victory against a potentially negative influence on the wealthy town. It wasn’t an upsurge in crime or some kind of unwanted real-estate development that had them so riled up. It was the…
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