Tuesday, October 24, 2017

NJ Sues Mahwah Over Eruv

Jackson next.
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

10 comments:

  1. What about Jackson? Their ordinance against dorms and eruv is also discriminating.

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  2. keep zev Weisberg and the vaad corruption out of all towns.
    Let Avi Schnall deal with it.

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  3. Does zev weisberg havr an opinion on the current matzav in israel where 1000's of yeshivaliet and bachurim have been terrorizing the streets through out israel? Or does he only comment ehen it fits his agenda?

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    1. Gooooooood! Well said

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    2. What is your opinion about the Kleve Get?

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    3. Ask the therapists at the health clinics they produce more gittin controversy than the Get of Cleves.

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  4. The corrupt vaad called lakewood residents bad apples yet they pretend to stick their nose elsewhere while they do nothing for lakewood.
    The self appointed spokesmouth does not represent or speak on behalf of the community.
    We do not support or respect the bad apples vaad.

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  5. Lakewood needs to be sued as well for trying to exclude schools and yeshivas from certain neighborhoods.

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    1. Wow thats a big stretch. There is probably no other township,in NJ or most other states that allows schools in every neighborhood besides Lakewood. To sue them for possibly excluding schools from a small section if town while still allowing it in 95 per cent of town ,is a little farfetched.

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  6. : https://jacksonleaks.com/2017/10/25/township-committee-shuffle/

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