Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of eruv enclosures, outdoor public areas marked off by wire that symbolically extend the private domain of Jewish households so that Jews can carry items in public, an activity otherwise forbidden on Shabbat.
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News How Eruv Fight Is Setting Secular Jews Against Orthodox in the Summer Paradise of the Hamptons
For six years, the Jews of the Hamptons have gone head-to-head over a piece of wire they can barely see. The Orthodox finally won the right to erect the eruv, a wire that allows Orthodox Jews to travel on the Sabbath because they consider it as an extension of the home, in the tony towns…
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Breaking News Hamptons Eruv Will Expand to 2 More Towns
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 —…
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Breaking News Observant Jews Win Hamptons Eruv Battle
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…
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News How an Eruv fight set secular Jews against Orthodox in Hamptons summer paradise
Tensions rose when opponents argued the eruv’s presence would ruin Southampton — even though they can't see it
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Opinion Meet the Man Fighting Eruv ‘Terrorists’ in the Hamptons
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…
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Opinion The Eruv Dividing Church and State in the Hamptons
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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Breaking News Hamptons Eruv Wins Approval From Appeals Court
A federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of the recently constructed eruv around Westhampton Beach on Long Island. The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the plastic strips placed on utility poles in the village to designate the eruv do not breach the separation of church and state. “No reasonable…
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Breaking News Atheists Want Eruv Pulled From Miami Beach Streets
A national atheist group is demanding that an eruv be taken down in Miami Beach. The eruv around the Pinetree Park area was erected two months ago, despite the fact that the entire island of Miami Beach is surrounded by an eruv, after the city installed a kayak ramp rendering part of the main eruv…
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