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Friday July 20, 2001

Judge OKs eruv for suburban Montreal Jews

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

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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