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Repair Log

Parshat Shelach: the Eruv is and will remain DOWN June 15, 2012

June 10, 2012 : 3:42 pm

The ERUV is Down

 

The Eruv is down and will not be repaired in time for Shabbos.
The eruv will not be available this shabbos.

Let your friends know.


June 15, 2012
25 Sivan 5772

Filed Under: Repair Log, Status

Parshat Lech-Lecha – the Eruv is UP

November 3, 2011 : 5:21 pm

The ERUV is UP

Thank you to the crew, and contractors who worked so hard this week to restore the Eruv for the community.

Thank you to those families who stepped forward with contributions this week towards the costs of repairs and maintenance.

Thank you to those Shuls who are so reliable in collecting and submitting dues from their members.  We wouldn’t have an Eruv without you.

 

Please remember to check eruv status each week before carrying on Shabbos.

Two additional ways to be kept up to date:

  • Add yourself to the Los Angeles Eruv status email list: http:/www.laeruv.com/subscribe

  • On Facebook, look for “Los Angeles Eruv” and request to be added to the group.  It is a closed group where only members will know that you belong.

  • Please remind your eruv-using friends to subscribe to the email list.

Please pay your dues if you have not already.  This unexpected expense is costly.

Please check with your Shul Rav or President to verify that your shul has sent in member dues.
November 4, 2011
7 Cheshvan 5772

Filed Under: Repair Log, Status

405 Project and the ERUV

July 4, 2011 : 11:05 am

The Los Angeles Times ran a story this week on the LA Eruv and how the freeway reconstruction is affecting us.

Thanks to the LA Times coverage, we’ve also done interviews with KNX radio and NBC TV. Here’s a link to the NBC TV video on the Eruv.
here’s what Mitchell Landsberg of the LA Times had to say:

Carmageddon, schmarmageddon.

Like just about everybody else, Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles have their issues with the 405 Freeway widening project. Unlike most people, however, their primary concern is not necessarily the impending closure of a stretch of the freeway on the July 16-17 weekend.

Their problem is that the 405 construction project keeps messing up their eruv.

Some explanation is probably in order.

An eruv is a ritual enclosure surrounding a neighborhood. It can be a fence, a wall, a piece of string — or a freeway. And it must be unbroken.

Its purpose is legalistic, a loophole, some might say. It allows observant Jews to perform certain actions on the Sabbath — carry a tray of food or push a baby stroller, for example — that Jewish law prohibits in public on that day.

In effect, it creates an entire zone that is considered communal.

Some eruvs can be fairly small, enclosing a tight-knit Jewish neighborhood. Brooklyn, for instance, is checkered with relatively small ones. It is perhaps not surprising that Los Angeles, the city that practically invented urban sprawl, is home to one of the largest eruvs anywhere, a vast enclosure 40 miles in circumference, surrounding much of the Westside and spilling over into the San Fernando Valley.

Read the full story here:

Filed Under: Press, Repair Log

Shabbat Vayikra – the Eruv is UP

March 14, 2010 : 1:29 am

The ERUV is UP

Sponsored by Alan Friedman and family in memory of his father Yerachmiel Baruch ben Elazar whose yahrzeit is Shabbos

The Eruv is sponsored by the Katzovitz family in honor of the dedicated crews of CalTrans, Metro and Kiewit who are making extraordinary efforts to keep the Eruv intact while they rebuild the 405 freeway

The Eruv volunteers, checkers, repairmen, drivers, et all, wish to extend Special thanks to the shuls that have organized this support on an annual basis and have sent in the dues for their members this year:

Thank you to;

Anshe Emes
Beth Am
Bnai David Judea
Chabad of Beverlywood
Kehilas Yavneh
Westwood Village Synagogue
Y.I.H.P
Y.I.C.C.
Y.I.N.BH.

Further thanks to all the individuals who have contributed by sending in annual dues and more. Things would not function without your membership and support.

To see your shul on the list, PLEASE ask your Rabbi or shul president as applicable. We look forward to an expanded list of participants.

Shabbat Vayikra
March 19, 2010
4 Nissan, 5770
Candlelighting 6:43 PM

Filed Under: Repair Log, Status

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