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July 7, 2023, 10:55 am
Hong Kong gets an eruv, releasing its observant Jews from Shabbat confinement
The inauguration of the symbolic area in which Jews may carry objects on the Sabbath upgrades the weekend routine of dozens of observant community members, as well as visitors
By
Canaan Lidor
June 14, 2023, 1:16 pm
Daily Briefing June 14: Fateful voting day in Knesset for judicial picks
Knesset correspondent Tal Schneider discusses choosing MKs for Judicial Selection Committee; Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor looks at Lithuanian PM speech and Hong Kong eruv
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ToI Staff
May 27, 2019, 8:27 am
After backlash, Staten Island Hasidic Jews remove eruv installed without permits
Residents put up lawn signs appearing to express opposition to ultra-Orthodox influx into area; symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews installed without required permission
By
Marcy Oster
September 18, 2018, 9:38 pm
Town accused of bias against Orthodox Jews settles lawsuit
New Jersey town agrees to repeal ordinance that barred out-of-state residents from using its parks; won’t ban Jews from putting up an eruv around the town
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AP
February 1, 2018, 6:44 am
Town accused of discriminating against Jews settles lawsuit over ritual boundary
Mahwah, New Jersey was sued for ordinance banning construction of an ‘eruv’ religious barrier
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JTA
January 19, 2018, 3:34 pm
Alec Goldstein
I used to check the Sabbath eruv
Those who observe the letter of Jewish law are not about to stop using an eruv that lets them carry on Shabbat
December 18, 2017, 11:11 pm
New Jersey community withdraws opposition to Shabbat boundary
Mahwah township caves in after Eruv Assocation files lawsuit. Residents feared eruv would encourage influx of ultra-Orthodox Jews
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JTA
October 25, 2017, 12:32 am
New Jersey sues town for discrimination against Orthodox Jews
Lawsuit claims Mahwah’s eruv ban and attempt to keep non-residents out of its parks targets Jews, reminiscent of 1950s policies to keep blacks from white neighborhoods
By
AP
August 13, 2017, 9:32 pm
Orthodox group sues US town for ordering ‘eruv’ removal
Legal action targets Mahwah, New Jersey, for taking down religious barrier because it was ‘signage’
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JTA
August 11, 2017, 3:34 pm
Joanne Palmer
This eruv is more than a legal fiction
Will decency prevail in the ugly fight on the NY/NJ border over an abstract wall that lets Orthodox Jews carry on Shabbat?
August 9, 2017, 11:07 pm
Anti-Semitism fears in NJ town’s response to Jewish community
Mahwah residents oppose eruv, which allows religious Jews to carry out Shabbat activities, say it limits parks to locals
By
JESSICA LI
July 24, 2017, 9:16 pm
New Jersey town orders religious boundary taken down
Plastic pipes on utility poles carrying eruv, which allows religious Jews to carry on Shabbat, considered illegal signage
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JTA
July 28, 2016, 10:25 am
Brooklyn ‘eruv’ vandalism investigated as hate crime
Chabad leaders vehemently oppose the ritual Sabbath boundary erected by the modern Orthodox Crown Heights community
By
JTA
August 28, 2015, 5:13 am
Princeton University to install ‘eruv’ on campus
500 of the school’s 5,000 undergraduates and 200 of its 2,000 graduate students are Jewish
By
JTA
April 7, 2015, 8:11 pm
Eruv row turns ugly in UK town
A fight over the ritual enclosure sparks charges of Jewish ‘social engineering’
By
ToI Staff
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