Hamptons Eruv Hullaballoo
There's ALWAYS a huge public stink when one is proposed. NIMBY opposition surfaces, which is then caricatured as anti-semitism.
The eruv is not only silly and superstitious (much of halachah is, and one can argue that to attack these legalisms is to attack Judaism itself), but it affects the whole community aesthetically, and is therefore not a simple matter of religious liberty. Ultimately these public debates do not make the Jewish community look good.
The eruv is not only silly and superstitious (much of halachah is, and one can argue that to attack these legalisms is to attack Judaism itself), but it affects the whole community aesthetically, and is therefore not a simple matter of religious liberty. Ultimately these public debates do not make the Jewish community look good.
posted by hellisotherpeople at 2:01 PM
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