Crown
Heights, Brooklyn, NY – A police investigation into several acts of
vandalism against the recently constructed Crown Heights eruv
has been turned over to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
The
Crown Heights eruv was completed in mid-June and has been the subject of heated
debate, with supporters contending that an eruv is a vital community
institution that is allowed under Jewish law and opponents saying that the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, opposed the construction
of an eruv in Crown Heights.
Police
said that they received reports of numerous instances of vandalism against the
eruv which is attached to light poles within the confines of both the 71st and
77th precincts, with unknown individuals cutting the eruv between mid-June to
mid-July.
