A mechitza (halachik wall) together with an eruv chatzerot (), commonly known in English as a community eruv, is a symbolic boundary that allows Jews who observe the religious rules concerning Shabbat to carry certain items outside of their homes that would otherwise be forbidden during Shabbat. An eruv accomplishes this by integrating a number of private and public properties into one larger private domain, thereby avoiding restrictions on carrying objects from the private to the public domain on the Sabbath and holidays.
This is a list of places that have eruvin, both historic and modern, that are or were rabbinically recognized.
New eruv in Burlington, Vt.
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Quebec
France
Gibraltar
Hong Kong
Hungary
Israel
While this list includes some eruvin in Israel for which references have been found on the Internet, virtually every community in Israel where observant Jews live has an eruv. In many Israeli cities there are multiple eiruvin. For example, in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem rabbinate maintains an eiruv around the whole city, the Edah HaChareidis maintains its own eiruv around major portions of the city, and most chareidi neighborhoods have their own small eiruv with higher standards, some of which do not rely on the above-mentioned leniency of 600,000. Those which lack eruvin include non-Jewish communities like Arab, Bedouin or Druze towns, and some non-religious kibbutzim.
Italy
Lithuania
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Alabama
Arizona
California
- Albany/Berkeley
- Irvine
- Long Beach
- Los Angeles:
- Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Hancock Park, Pico-Robertson, West Hollywood, and Westwood
- Chatsworth, Granada Hills, North Hills, and Northridge
- North Hollywood, Valley Village, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Sherman Village, and Panorama City
- Woodland Hills/West Hills
- Oakland
- Palo Alto
- San Diego:
- College Area
- La Jolla
- University City
- San Francisco
- San Jose
Colorado
- Denver:
- East side
- West side
- Southeast
Connecticut
District of Columbia
- Barnaby Woods, Brightwood Park, Chevy Chase, Hawthorne, and Rock Creek Gardens
- Adams Morgan, Burleith, Capitol Hill, Cleveland Park, Crestwood, Downtown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, Georgetown, Le Droit Park, Mount Pleasant, Navy Yard/Near Southeast, Petworth, Trinidad, and Woodley Park
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
- Annapolis
- Baltimore
- Bethesda (Conservative)
- Brookeville/Olney
- Chevy Chase
- Glyndon, Owings Mills, and Reisterstown
- Potomac
- Rockville/North Bethesda
- Silver Spring:
- Colesville, Hillandale, White Oak, Woodmoor, Northwood, Kemp Mill, and Wheaton
- Woodside Park
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus.
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Uruguay
References
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