Three municipalities in the U.S. state of New Jersey resisted the construction of an eruv within their borders in 2017 and 2018. An eruv is used by Orthodox Jews as a ritual boundary that facilitates travel on the Jewish Sabbath, and the one in Bergen County was marked by plastic pipes attached to utility poles. Mahwah, Upper Saddle River and Montvale ordered it dismantled, as their permission had not been obtained. During the controversy, many Mahwah residents angrily protested against the prospect of Orthodox Jews from Rockland County, New York, using local parks or seeking to buy homes there. The eruv association brought federal lawsuits against each of the municipalities. In Mahwah, an ordinance was passed barring nonresidents of New Jersey from its parks, leading to accusations of anti-Semitism. A settlement was reached allowing the eruv to remain, but Mahwah still faces a lawsuit from the New Jersey Attorney General accusing it of discrimination.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Bergen_County_eruv_controversy
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian revolt of 1910. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1910
1923:
The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle the Anatolian part of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries of modern Turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne
1998:
A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire, killing two police officers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident
2014:
Fifty minutes after departing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar, and its wreckage was found the next day in Mali, with no survivors of the 116 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
tank up: 1. (transitive, intransitive, Canada, US) To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.). 2. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To intoxicate (especially with alcohol). 3. (intransitive) To install a tank. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tank_up
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
In many ways life is less random than we think. In your past and mine, there have been times when we have, on some lonely trail, constructed a device aimed into our future. Perhaps nothing ever comes along to trigger it. We live through the safe years. But, for some people, something moves on the half-forgotten path, and something arches out of the past and explodes in the here and now. --John D. MacDonald https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald
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