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Westhampton Beach, NY – Residents of a wealthy East End enclave are up in arms and living in fear that their tony way of life will be destroyed – all because of a quarter-inch strip of plastic.
The furor has broken out, after a local synagogue asked permission to erect a symbolic plastic boundary to allow worshippers to perform physical tasks on the Sabbath.
The boundary – called an eruv – is made of thin PVC strips attached to power poles on a one-square-mile perimeter around the Hampton Synagogue.
Some Westhampton Beach gentile residents oppose the eruv because they fear it will attract more Orthodox Jews to the area.
screw them we have the same right to live there like them
yeh, we have the same right, but they have the right not to have the eruv up, too.
they dont want the eruv because they dont want the orthodox jews there. My point is we as orthodox jews have the same right and if that means to have an eruv to allow us to carry on shabbos so be it farsteist
bottom line
eruv=machlokes
you cant go one day without caring we need to destoy neigborhod
what would u do if the christians decided to run an eruv shaped like a bunch of little crosses with youshka hanging on it. would you say the same thing that *they have the right*? i dont think so.
an eruv is a string you can barely see it doesnt offend anybody
To reply to the top two comments..
To the envirmentolist.. carrying also includes using a baby carriage on shabbos.. so its for allowing your wife to come to shule.
To Anon1:27
you don’t feel upset when you go to all the malls on xmas time and are forced to hear jing bells and see all those xmas decorations? I do … so I hope here too as jews we can get our eruv .. They are not bothered by the sight of it..but that it will attract more JEWS .. oY vEY… Let the JEWS move in!!!
to anon1:33
way to go couldnt have said it better
We must repoplated what the Nazis Y”S”V” did
to 05-09-2008 – 1:33 PM
We live in Gules. Don’t forget it.
Any pretext for preventing Jews moving in can now be ignored – we know they have revealed their intent — they do not want it to be a comfortable place for Jews to freely live!
That proves they are violating our civil rights… worse than separate drinking fountains!
I agree with the comment that a nearly invisible eruv is less of a problem to goyim than goyish idolatry in our faces every winter.
Doesn’t the recent yarmulke (not in violation of uniform) give us a stronger case? Oh but the goyim won’t chop the kal v’chomer.
So maybe particularly in this day of Homeland Security bypass the people and just let the fire chief decide on behalf of the town that civil rights shall no longer be violated…. and put up the eruv!
i’m sure jews been living there for number of years why all of a sudden do u want an erev?? where in golus
“an eruv is a string you can barely see it doesn’t offend anybody”
Yup – the perfect Heker for a Reshus. We sure are an interesting group I must say.
to the misnaged who wrote eruv=machlokes: do you know why? because the samach mem (satan) hates eruvim cuz it brings yidden together and is mekarev the geula, so he sends his loyal misnagdim to make machlokes.
i have an a idea for a new invention….
a wirless eruv
if you look first they made and eruv in boro park and all we had were bloody wars then itspread to fltbush same result then kensington evne more blodier now recently london …so can you please explain what achudus is being brought upon an eruv
[quote]VOOS FARSHTAISTEE …because the samach mem (satan) hates eruvim cuz it brings yidden together and is mekarev the geula, so he sends his loyal misnagdim to make machlokes.
05-09-2008 – 3:44 PM[/qoute]
where in the world did you get that from??
votz wrong mit the yiddishe hampmtons? “Monticello”? vai do the frime have to go to where the goyim are? that has been our problem for thousands of years we always have to run after what the goyim are doing!!! G’denkt Eisov Soyneh Leyaakov!
If jews want to set up a community they should get a piece of property away from the goyim like squaretown and not rock the boat and push themselves into an existing goyshe community. In Lakewood they literally took over the town and drove the blacks and whites out. There was a status quo here for years and now its gone. If I was a goy i would also be upset. This is mgara umos haolam and does no good.
To jacob 7:37 pm
GIT GEZUGT. YASHER KOIACH.
I’m so thankful that I had the opportunity to work at NYU medical center (ICU nurse)and see first hand this amazing religion from loving and supportive orthodox jewish men and women.
Although I was so far removed from this faith growing up in Montana, I learned as a nurse encountering it in the ICU a deeper love and a deeper respect for not just one group, but all of humanity.
We should be supportive of each other and let go of fear. People that can be proud of who they are no matter their race, religion, etc. make the best neighbors, friends and I might add patients!
I don’t object to the eruv in Westhampton, but why does it have to be plastic? Couldn’t it be made of a better material?
Our environment is already littered with poorly designed signs and street furniture. If there is going to be an eruv, it should be made of a material that the community can be proud of.
In a similar way, I have no objection to the Christian churches ringing their bells on Sunday, but I would be much happier with the sound of real bells than the tasteless fake bell recordings that we are subjected to.
What an improvement that would be! Real church bells and beautifully made eruv markers!
Please post comments responsibly as all comments are moderated.I feel very uncomfortable and distressed when I walk or drive through someones house (ERUV) on the sabbath. This is an infringement of my rights.
I am a Christian who had lived in Westhampton Beach for over 20 years and owned a business here. With complete respect for the Jewish faith I have a question. In the past few days more than 100 people from the Hampton Synagogue have walked past my home. Men, women, children, women with strollers, young and old. If all these people are willing and able to walk without the eruvs, why are they necessary? Thank you.
If this is no big deal why arn’t there eruv’s in all towns on Long Island?
I think all of you orthodox people have nerve asking business owners to close on Saturday!!!!! Who are you to demand shops that people feed their families with to close down. I think this is the biggest disgrace and cannot even imagine how one would even take this seriously and discuss this!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never heard a Christian ask an Orthodox business owner to close one of their stores on Sunday. Please allow West Hampton to remain the beautiful resort it truly is. DO NOT ALLOW these people to take this away from all of us that enjoy this with OUR respectful families.