MAHWAH – One day after the state filed suit against the township, alleging a parks ban and efforts to prohibit a Jewish religious boundary were discriminatory, residents and town officials reacted with a mix of defiance, approvaland accusations of a political conspiracy.
Mahwah has been on edge since this summer, when reports first surfaced that a New York Orthodox Jewish group was expanding a religious boundary known as an eruv into town.
Township Council meetings have been raucous, and residents have expressed fear that the eruv could signal the beginning of an expansion of Orthodox Jewish communities from New York into Mahwah.
In an op-ed last week, he chided Mahwah residents for creating an “Overarching perception of anti-Semitism and discrimination” in its rejection of the eruv.