The Village of Westhampton Beach has become the last of three neighboring municipalities on Long Island to approve settlements of court actions and drop opposition to establishing an eruv, a symbolic Jewish religious boundary.
Creating eruvs by attaching plastic strips onto utility polls represents a symbolic extension of the home and, in some Jewish sects, allows people to push and carry objects within its bounds during Sabbath and Yom Kippur. Advocates of the eruv, which was first proposed in 2008, say it also will make it easier for Jews to get to services during religious observances.
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