Mahwah officials will keep symbolic, PVC piping on utility poles in town, and the religious group that wants them there will replace or repaint them a color to better blend into the pole, according to ...

MAHWAH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) --Tiny plastic pipes appearing on power poles could be signaling a change in one New Jersey community, and some residents believe it's cause for concern. When the slender ...

The rabbi pointed high up in the sky to a light pole bearing a barely distinguishable wire. “Do you touch that one?” he asked the civil engineer beside him. “I need to look at my plans,” replied the ...

UPPER SADDLE RIVER — An Orthodox Jewish organization had no right to build an eruv in Upper Saddle River without municipal consent, an attorney for the borough argued in a motion to dismiss the New ...

MAHWAH — The Township Council approved an eleventh-hour settlement Tuesday night to resolve litigation with a New York Orthodox Jewish group that filed suit when the township threatened to remove an ...

A Jewish group has gotten pushback over an attempt to expand its religious boundary (known as an eruv) from New York to towns in Bergen County. The group, the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association, is ...

For the young Orthodox woman living in a community without an eruv boundary, motherhood comes with a high cost. The moment that newborn arrives, it’s goodbye to Sabbath mornings in synagogue, goodbye ...

Rivkie Feiner says growing up in Monsey during 1970s she took the eruv for granted, rarely thinking about the symbolic boundary that expanded where she could play, carry toys and other items beyond ...

A simple fence made of string has become the latest religious symbol to spark a controversy in South Florida. Orthodox Jews who want to leave their homes on the Sabbath need to create an eruv — a ring ...

Attorney for Petitioner: Bracken Margolin Besunder LLP, Islandia, N.Y. Attorney for Petitioner: Weil, Gotschal & Manges, Esqs, New York, N.Y. Attorney for Respondents ...