Hundreds of Charedi families in Stamford Hill and Tottenham are set to benefit on Shabbat as the area’s first town eruv is due to go live on Friday.
The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregrations has finally approved the borders of the eruv zone which will run from South Tottenham Synagogue in the north and cover a sizeable part of the east of Stamford Hill.
While there had been growing grassroots pressure for a local eruv in recent years, it was the confinement of families during lockdown that eventually swayed the presiding rabbinate.
In a notice to the community, the Union’s rabbinate explained that both its current leader, Rabbi Ephraim Padwa and his predecessor, his father, had had halachic doubts about an eruv in London.