“Our safety concerns have been ignored, and instead Mahwah has been accused of discriminating against a religious group.” “No matter where they are from, or who they are, it is unsafe to occupy a playground … in large, uncontrollable numbers,” said Kate Nunez, a Mahwah resident for nearly 20 years. The ordinance, he said, was to curb the number of people from outside Mahwah using parks, not to target Jews. Mahwah Council President Rob Hermansen said Mahwah residents began complaining this year about vehicles from New York occupying parking lots at Winters Pond, a recreational area across from the town’s train station. Supporters of the measure say they are being unfairly maligned as anti-Semitic, when they’re just looking out for their town. ![]() ![]() The eruv dispute comes at the same time as the park ordinance, adding another layer to concerns the Jewish community is being targeted. 5, 2017, photo, polyvinyl chloride piping is seen on an utility pole on Airmount Road in Mahwah, New Jersey. Following an order from Mahwah to remove the eruv pipes by last Friday, the South Monsey Eruv fund retained a law firm, and the eruv remains standing. The Jewish community’s supporters say the incursion into Mahwah is only because the layout of utility poles doesn’t form an enclosure around the Rockland County border. Some have led to disputes, including a six-year legal fight in Tenafly, New Jersey, which was forced to pay a Jewish group more than $300,000 in legal fees and allow them to keep their eruv up. The eruvs are set up in communities of Orthodox Jews across the country, including one made of fishing line that stretches along utility poles for 18 miles around New York City. There have also been complaints around the region of aggressive solicitation by real estate brokers looking to buy homes for the Jewish community in the suburbs of New York City and around New Jersey as real estate in New York becomes too expensive. The eruv expansion and park ordinance follows years of growth among the Orthodox Jewish population in southern Rockland County in New York.
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