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November 25, 2024

A Small Victory Over Anti-Semitism in a British Village

The eruv of Hale.

According to Jewish law, the prohibition on carrying objects outside on the Sabbath can be circumvented with a system of poles and string or wires that creates a symbolic wall around a large area. Many American cities with significant Jewish communities have them, and on a few occasions the construction of this inconspicuous legal fiction has caused strife with other locals. Eruvim are somewhat less common in Europe, but the Orthodox community in the English village of Hale decided to ask permission to build one. Local official issued a report in favor, but then, the Jerusalem Post reports:

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