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Friday, July 20, 2001 | return to: international
Judge OKs eruv for suburban Montreal Jews
by MONTREAL (JTA) -- A Canadian judge has recently ruled that residents of a Montreal suburb have a religious right to put up a typ, A large number of Orthodox Jews, including many Chassidim, live in the suburb of Outrement and had asked their City Council for
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Orthodox Jews won a temporary court injunction last spring that permitted them to hang eruvs just prior to Passover.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Allan Hilton ruled that Outrement, where about one-quarter of the 24,000 residents are Jewish, must allow the eruv.
"Outremont will continue to be a community of communities that cannot ignore the needs of thousands of its residents," said Allan Adel,
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