Miami Beach eruv attracts unwanted attention

It feels like ancient history now, but “>New Times Miami reports:

“The religious significance of eruvin is unambiguous and indisputable,” FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel wrote yesterday. “They are objects which are significant only to some Jews as a means to obey religious laws that have no bearing on non-adherents. They have no meaning except as a visual, public communication of a purely religious concept for religious believers of a single faith. The City cannot allow such permanent religious displays to be erected on public land.”

That's an abjectly oversimplified statement of the law, and my understanding is that past legal challenges to eruvin have failed because permitting such construction does not qualify as an impermissable government endorsement of religion. Some scholarly discussion “>Another eruv fight.”) And yet they remain in many cities big and small. Nothing in Miami Beach plainly suggests materially different circumstances.

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