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NJ.com - New Jersey sues Mahwah over eruv, alleging discriminatory ordinance against Orthodox Jews
The state Attorney General’s office has filed a nine-count lawsuit against Mahwah and the town council, contending that a pair of ordinances passed last summer discriminates against Orthodox Jews and recalls the post-war era of white flight to the suburbs.
Rather than large-scale migrations of whites from urban areas to escape racial integration, Mahwah passed a pair of ordinances that the state argues unlawfully disfavors Orthodox Jews and deprives them of their Constitutional rights.
One ordinance banned non-New Jersey residents from using Mahwah's public parks and the other banned the posting of “lechis,” or little plastic strips, denoting the boundary of an eruv. An eruv is a perimeter in which Orthodox Jews can perform tasks they otherwise couldn’t on the Sabbath, such as push strollers and carry keys Read more at nj.com
NJ.com - New Jersey sues Mahwah over eruv, alleging discriminatory ordinance against Orthodox Jews
The state Attorney General’s office has filed a nine-count lawsuit against Mahwah and the town council, contending that a pair of ordinances passed last summer discriminates against Orthodox Jews and recalls the post-war era of white flight to the suburbs.
Rather than large-scale migrations of whites from urban areas to escape racial integration, Mahwah passed a pair of ordinances that the state argues unlawfully disfavors Orthodox Jews and deprives them of their Constitutional rights.
One ordinance banned non-New Jersey residents from using Mahwah's public parks and the other banned the posting of “lechis,” or little plastic strips, denoting the boundary of an eruv. An eruv is a perimeter in which Orthodox Jews can perform tasks they otherwise couldn’t on the Sabbath, such as push strollers and carry keys Read more at nj.com