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The ruling also tells eruv backers that restrictions on what they can do derive “not from the town’s zoning regulations but from Jewish law,” according to the suit.
The decision also suggests that use of an eruv exploits a religious loophole and is “motivated by the personal desire . . . to be freed from the proscriptions of Jewish law,” according to the suit.