NEWS!

• July 2007 - Initial discussion with Rabbi Barry Hartman of New Bedford about an Eruv for the city.
• July 2007 - The community around Crystal Lake in Newton is now within the Eruv. The City of Newton now permits residents and guests to use Crystal Lake year-round. Car-top-carried boats (kayaks, canoes, small rowboats without engines) are permitted during the daytime. People have been and are now regularly using the lake more than a majority of the year. Thus, the residential areas around the lake are now considered part of the Eruv. One cannot wade into the lake on Shabbat but walking/carrying in the areas south of Beacon St., east of Walnut St., and west of Centre St. are now Halachically available for Hotza-ah/carrying. [effective 7/6/2007]...
• October 2007 - Newton Eruv border around Bulloughs Pond has changed, please see Maps page for more information.
• June 2007 - Permits for Malden Eruv Expansion completed
• February 22, 2007 - Staying in Brookline, Brighton, Boston, or Newton for Shabbat and need to know about hotels within the Eruv? Here you go!
• February 17, 2007 - Invited talk about the Eruv to the Minyan Shaleym congregation in Brookline.
• February 10, 2007 - Expansion planned for Malden Eruv...
• January 10, 2007 - Proposed Lynn Eruv described in Jewish Press. See the Eruv News link.
• December 6, 2006 - We receive a request on behalf of the Kollel community in East Berlin, Germany, for information to support their efforts to build an Eruv. Today, there are 100,000 Jews in Germany.
• July 17, 2006 - Invited Eruv Presentation to the 2006 Gralla Fellows Program. For more information, see the Brandeis description of the program.
• March 19, 2006 - Jesse Hefter, the president of the Eruv, spoke about the Eruv at a Shul Breakfast organized by Congregation Beth El-Atereth Israel, Newton, MA. If you would like to schedule a visit to your shul, let us know!
• One may transit the following Newton Mass Pike overpasses on Shabbat: Lewis St., Harvard St., Walnut St., Lowell Ave.
• The southern entrance to the Sheraton Hotel at the Mass Pike in Newton (near Exit 17) is accessible to the Eruv. This includes the Main Entrance (turning towards Centre St.).
• The "Maps" link now provides all updated maps and directions for the places within the Eruv district that are not able to be transited on Shabbat. Please carefully review this information if you plan on walking near these areas on Shabbat.
• The new Boston University extension to the community Eruv is an extension, not independent, of the "greater" Eruv.
• The hospital complexes (Children's, Brigham and Women's, Deaconess, Beth Israel) in the Longwood Avenue area of Boston are NOT in the Eruv.

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Reviewing the BU Eruv Construction, August 27, 2005, Rabbi Moshe Heinemann (Rav Hamachshir), right, and Dr. Jesse Hefter (Eruv President)

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