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‘Not in my back yard’: Charedi chief fights new eruv plan

April 10, 2008 23:00

BySimon Rocker, Simon Rocker

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The religious leader of London’s Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations moved this week to prevent the creation of an eruv in his own back yard.

Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, head of the Union’s rabbinate, urged members of the strictly Orthodox community not to back plans for a local eruv that would cover the Charedi strongholds of Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington in North London.

The Union has long opposed the use of the five-year-old North-West London eruv, which serves Hampstead Garden Suburb, Hendon and Golders Green, arguing that its boundaries fail to meet the requirements of Jewish law.

But now a group of activists are trying to draw up plans for a similar facility for the 20,000-plus Charedi community in Hackney and Haringey.