MAHWAH, N.J. – Confronted with federal and state lawsuits over ordinances allegedly discriminating against Orthodox Jews, the Mahwah Township Council has repealed a parks ban, according to multiple reports.
Council voted Thursday to amend the ordinance that would have restricted public parks to residents, drawing anti-Semitic allegations, the New York Times reports.
The lawsuits – brought federally by a Jewish group and another by the state – allege ordinances and other measure were attempts to keep Orthodox Jews from across the nearby New York border out, the article says.
Earlier that day, a Midland Park business owner was charged by Mahwah police with vandalizing a local eruv.
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