[AppyPappy]

It’s just odd they come up with elaborate schemes to get around rules they voluntarily follow.

[MeanWestTexan]

"It’s just odd they come up with elaborate schemes to get around rules they voluntarily follow." Being chosen is not a choice for the chosen. An eruv ([ʔeˈʁuv]; Hebrew: עירוב‎‎, "mixture", also transliterated as eiruv or erub, plural: eruvin [ʔeʁuˈvin]) is a ritual enclosure that some Jewish communities, and especially Orthodox Jewish communities, construct in their neighborhoods as a way to permit Jewish residents or visitors to carry certain objects outside their own homes on Sabbath and Yom Kippur. An eruv accomplishes this by integrating a number of private and public properties into one larger private domain, thereby avoiding restrictions on carrying objects from the private to the public domain on Sabbath and holidays. The eruv allows these religious Jews to, among other things, carry house keys, tissues, medicines, or babies with them, and use strollers and canes. The presence or absence of an eruv thus especially affects the lives of people with limited mobility and those responsible for taking care of babies and young children.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The good news is that absolutely no one is inconvenienced or harmed in any way by the Jews’ creating an eruv for their community.

This practice is not an obvious “Oh, yes, that makes sense,” and even more explanation might lead to even more head scratching on the part of those who decide to be free from restrictions. The whole thing is pretty innocuous and should be ok, if only from a multiculti point of view.

One can argue that if the U.S. is not complaining about Muslim mutilation and honor killing of its girls in the U.S. or Muslims’ quoting their religion in cutting off the hands and heads of other humans, then overlooking a stretch of wire put on top of some posts by Jews ought not seem such a terrible “offence.”