[C19fan]

Being from the NYC metro area I remember similar stories about Orthodox Jews applying to do the same thing in the area. The Gentiles tended to object because they did not want poles with fishing wire in the neighborhood.

[AppyPappy]

How weird.

[Starboard]

Wonder what the new mayor of London thinks about this?

[bert]

what is an eruv and what does fishing wire have to do with it?

oh, and what is fishing wire?

[PghBaldy]

I would have thought they had one already, but it is the UK. My old neighborhood has one in Pittsburgh, IIRC.

[Honorary Serb]

Can we “Infidels” somehow set up muslim-free zones, using a similar system?

What about “gay”-free zones? (This would be especially helpful during the month of June.)

Of course, neither would be allowed!!!!

[Ann Archy]

THIS is what Orthodox means......following the rules instead of CHANGING them!!! Talk about Ghettoization!! These would be NO GO ZONES....maybe they already are.....I’m sure they don’t want any Gentiles in their hood.

[Boogieman]

I don’t think that you can fool God with technicalities.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The purpose of the symbolic enclosure is not to keep gentiles out, or to create a no-go zone. According to the article, it's to create a kind of "virtual" boundary within which you'd have a single kind of ritual space. These eruvim posts and fishing lines are barely visible or noticeable. They are the next best thing to invisible fences without being literally invisible.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see why anyone should be bent out of shape by this. I mean, it's not my religion, but it's no skin off my nose, either.

It's also not my job to decide whether this is within or outside of proper Jewish fidelity to their religious customs. There's no way I, a Christian Gentile, have any reasonable way to have an opinion on that.

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Something you can't see is also an issue in the US. Upsets liberal Jews too

How Eruv Fight Is Setting Secular Jews Against Orthodox in the Summer Paradise

It has nothing to do with creating Ghettos, that was done for Jews by others. Or barring Christians from the effected neighborhoods. A couple links below. The demarcation, for observant Jews, recreates the common elements of the walled towns Jews lived in millenia ago. They're not visible, normally wires on existing utility poles. In most cases already existing wire.

Read more: How Eruv Fight Set Secular Jews Against Orthodox in the Summer Paradise

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[Jim Noble]

I lived inside an eruv in Brooklyn for years.

Really not a problem, unless you’re bothered by you know who...

[HamiltonJay]

Yes, this whole thing is a bit stupid... Creating these “virtual” walls just so you can do things outside on Sabbath that your religion says are forbidden to do, outside on the Sabbath is just flat out silly.

Stringing up a bunch of fishing line just to say you are still inside your home, when you could be miles from it, is just lunacy.

Either observe your faith, leave your faith, or change its requirements/tenants, but this is just flat out stupid. But never let it be said that humans will not find inventive ways to self delude.