EXPENSES: Mahwah Council approves $175,000 for eruv legal costs.
LITIGATION: State sues Mahwah over alleged discrimination against Orthodox Jews.NJ ERUV: Timeline of the Mahwah eruv controversy.
For months, township officials have fought back against first a New York Orthodox Jewish group that built an eruv in town and then the state Attorney General’s Office, which claims actions taken by the town in recent months violate the civil rights of Orthodox Jews.In June, the council adopted a ban on non-state residents from using township parks, after numerous residents complained to local officials about overcrowding, particularly by large groups of Orthodox Jewish children who arrived on buses.
The eruv group, the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association, filed a federal suit in August after township officials threatened to issue summonses if they did not take down the boundary.