A 55-and-older community in Lakewood has agreed to leave its gates unlocked on the Sabbath after being sued by an Orthodox Jewish resident who argued the security measures amounted to religious discrimination by interfering with his ability to attend services at a nearby synagogue.
The Enclave at the Fairways in Lakewood will no longer lock its pedestrian gate on Sabbath and also agreed to make scheduling accommodations for guest passes on two major religious holidays each fall, the state Attorney General’s Office said in announcing the settlement.
“This settlement should serve as a reminder to housing associations, condo associations and co-ops across New Jersey that being sensitive to the religious beliefs and observances of their residents is not only the right thing to do, it is the law,” Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in a statement.
Nathan Reiss, who is an Orthodox Jew, filed a complaint in 2017 alleging religious discrimination after the complex built a new gate that required using an electronic card to enter or exit the community either on foot or in a vehicle. Members of the Orthodox Jewish community are forbidden from using electricity on the Sabbath as well as on Yom Kippur.
Before the new gate was installed, Reiss and other Orthodox residents simply ducked under the previous gate to get on and off the property.
Reiss’ suit also took issue with a change in the Enclave’s procedure on issuing guest passes. Previously, residents could register a guest’s name with a phone call to security days in advance. The Enclave later decided it would only accept request for guess passes on the same day, making it impossible for Orthodox residents to obtain passes on Sabbath or holidays because it also involves using electronics.
The Enclave also agreed to relax that policy on Sabbath and holidays.
An attorney for the Enclave couldn’t immediately be reached.
They sent in a mole to break apart the community. Looks like people are running. Sell now.
Paul Cobra really? ?
Once again they are trying to take over.
Krystal Turnbull yes really. What do you think is going to happen ? I’ll tell you. Everyone will move to get away from the bullshit ???
Oh my God…. they don’t drive anyway, walk around for Christ sake!!
Peter Michael Clausen IV I just said the same thing to my husband when reading this
It’s the pedestrian gate they want left open not the driving one…still doesn’t make it safe for anyone else living there
I used to work in these guard houses, I used to tell people who were annoyed by the gates… if you don’t like the gates, why move to a gated community?
Peter Michael Clausen IV
Great point!
Now that every burglar in Ocean County knows they keep their pedestrian gate unlocked…
Serious question – if he can’t use a gate card, does he use keys to lock his home or does he have to leave the doors unlocked?
according to this, it’s just electricity that can’t be used so a key is fine.
Yeah good job guys. Cowtaw to the Jew that moved in there AFTER the gate and community was built! Why don’t they just let the Jews make the rules for the community!!
Total crap.
What about safety? I would think “gated community” might mean it’s a gated, locked community. No? ?
Thought they couldn’t drive on Saturday? Interesting.
Tracy Ridenour
Correct. No driving.
But no keys/electric of any kind either.
It is a pedestrian gate
So they are going to jeopardize the entire rest of the community because they can’t use the gate ..Unbelievable what’s next!!
Isn’t that the idea of a gated community?
Scanlan Tara
Yep! It sure is.
Dorothy Candy yep that’s the idea
Well they shouldn’t of moved into a “Gated Community ” in the first palce!! SMFH!!!!!!!
This just put all the other communities on alert
Gotta love it, sue to get your way! Why not just build a Orthodox Jewish 55 and older development in Lakewood. This way no suing to get the bylaws changed and you have a choice where you wanna live.
Damian Arduino that’s probably the plan, this is step one of it becoming just that. Like the other community that was forced to have separate male and female swim times for their public pool even though they arent all Jewish and were there first…guess who all lives there now. Smh.
Damian Arduino don’t give them ideas ??
Damian Arduino I’m sure they are working on that..but why bother when they can just pissed off enough people into selling and moving out so they can move in?
And the criminals are free to roam in and out whenever they want. Great Idea! Let them in and a shithole it will become!
And they have all the money they need to do it as well?
Damian Arduino Why build their own Orthodox 55 and older community when they’ll no doubt get this whole community for a song when all residents pack up and move out of Lakewood. That’s their modus operandi.
Now you understand why they’ve been banned from 109 countries.
Nick Landolt they have?
Didn’t they know about that prior to moving in???
And WHO, IMO, will be the first to
sue when their home gets robbed??? IMO, THIS GUY!!!
WTF with Lakewood already… don’t the Jews get enough breaks!
He knew he bought in a gated community. So everyone else is in jeopardy now. ????
Stop it.
Get over it, you need to stop changing rules, let them conform to us
Maureen DiChiara they shouldn’t live there. That’s the point of a gated community. ??♀️??♀️
Can someone in there sue now because they are leaving the gate open in a gated community?
Laura Miller lol good point ?
Laura Miller omg YESSSSSS
Can someone please get on that …? Sue them seriously. That’s not the contract they signed when they bought into that community
I can’t wait for them to try that at my mom or
Dads community …..
They’re
Already trying to change the pool rules and close it for all except the Jewish men swim time … just horrible
Laura Miller I hope so! They paid more for a GATED community.
I thought residents of gated communities had remotes or cards to open all gates
Karen Dewar their argument is they can’t use the card because it’s forbidden during Sabbath so they had to duck to get under the gates which they didn’t like.
ohh boo hoooo…. duck under and shut up
Edgar Lissy you’re right it isn’t like they’re driving
Edgar Lissy isn’t there enough room for them to walk around the gate?
They replaced the original gate to put an electronic gate… replace it with one that needs a key.
Laura Miller exactly !
Well, you people that live there start suing your community for living the gates open and not providing security on Sabbath . I mean …they have run over your rights In removing gate security on Saturday!!!
Rosalia Leo
Tricia Reed Thank you. I read this yesterday
Deborah Reed Shelley
Then why move into a gated community!!?? So if anything happens do the people get to sue him?
That is total Bullshit!! We need to stop giving into their wants and needs!! The safety of everyone living there should come first. If the Orthodox homeowner doesn’t like it tough shit then move the hell out!
Michele Van Nest exactly!
Michele Van Nest he’s trying to push everyone out of there so the orthodox can move in and take over the community. That’s what they do.
Give em an inch…
They ruin everything they touch
Michele Van Nest why did he even move into a gated community. Grrrrrr
Karen Dewar literally.
Linda Smith Trum Exactly!! Why did he? I’ll tell you why he wants to make it into a Orthodox Community that’s why and this is just the beginning unfortunately! ?
I know someone who moved out of The Enclave it’s already overrun by them
Karen Dewar So Sad! I use to live in a beautiful townhouse community in Lakewood on Route 70 and the same thing happened to us and the Orthodox made it so bad and unbearable that we moved.
Karen Dewar It’s truly sad to see and makes me so mad! Here are people that moved into a senior community thinking hey this is where I want to live out the rest of my golden years and not have to worry about anything anymore! But then here comes the Orthodox to take all that happiness and sense of worry away so they can take over the community and get their way like they always do!! It’s not right at all and I feel bad for these people living in this community. They shouldn’t have to go through this especially in this point of their lives! Someone has got to put a stop to it or somehow. Enough is Enough already let them start abiding by our rules and ways of living!!
Michele Van Nest and without a cent to NJ taxes…fn nerve.
We need to stop giving into all religious needs and make them pay taxes and follow the laws like everyone else. This is getting out of hand with all of these exemptions and exceptions because someone claims a religion.
I’m very unclear as to why the ‘duck under’ approach wouldnt still work? The mechanism to open the gate changed…but they werent opening it prior to this, they were ducking under according to the article.
Brian Faulhaber You’re ? percent right Brian!!
Michele Van Nest my question is when the Orthodox bought in this community didn’t they see that it was gated? If your religion doesn’t permit you to use this security on the Sabbath and you know that than what the hell are you doing buying a home here?????
Susan Baenziger My Thoughts Exactly! Which leads me to believe he had a alternative motive somewhere down the road like taking over this senior community. All it takes is just one Orthodox and the rest will follow. Before you know it they will take it over and get rid of everyone else there. They don’t care and have no heart or feelings unless you are Orthodox!
To F@cking bad
I don’t agree…this is BS!
Wtf
They don’t like the rules, go back to where they came from. Gated is for protection of the residents.
Then DON’T LIVE IN A GATED COMMUNITY
they own over 85% of that development
Lisa Natilli Ferrara ???
Dangerous
Religious exemptions no vaccines wrong endangered everyone some stupid beliefs. now they should have to pay taxes they don’t have to do anything all they do is cry religious discrimination it is out
of control .no more special treatment for all this religious bull.
I need a wtf click for this bullshit
Becky Davis me too! Grrrr
So compromise the safety of the whole community for ONE Orthodox person who says it’s discriminatory to have gates locked on his Sabbath? Give me a break. This is why they incite people’s anger. What about all the Christians who make it in & out of the community just fine on their religious day? Please Orthodox person…get up into the 21st century.
Here’s what I don’t understand, if you’re looking to buy a home and you have religious restrictions that would make a gated community difficult for you, why move to a gated community then? Surely there are plenty of other homes they could have purchased where that wouldn’t have been an issue?
Sabrina Ramoth this is how they start appropriating properties.
Here’s what I don’t understand, if you’re looking to buy a home and you have religious restrictions that would make a gated community difficult for you, why move to a gated community then? Surely there are plenty of other homes they could have purchased where that wouldn’t have been an issue?
Sabrina Ramoth , even better would be how can an HOA base rules strictly on religious preference? THAT is a problem! Especially if it endangers or impedes on others safety. There was a home invasion there where the 2 people were lucky to make it, but hey it wasn’t one from that religion impacted so I guess it’s ok… Unreal
Just out of control!!
Can’t we just get rid of these people!?!?!? I will volunteer my time
So if they can’t drive during the Sabbath why do they need the gate open to let a car they can’t drive go through? They can easily walk around the gate. Since when does the good of the ONE outweigh the good of the many?
Howard Frank its the pedestrian gate.
Howard Frank you are so right!
Howard Frank when the ONE is Hasidic and observes these rules during their holiday they get what they want because of the religion card. I wonder if Catholics went to a restaurant during Lent where their food was being cooked with meat that they can’t eat if they would make a big deal (Might be a poor example but I hope the point gets across)?
My parents live in Leisure Village and on holidays because of the amount of visitors going in they leave the gate open…
F them
So quick to pull that fake race/discrimination card out. Man do they know how to use it well. Someone needs to stop this bull?
Why did they move there then??? They had to know in advance there were gates!!!
They can’t drive on the Sabbath so why can’t they just walk around the gate? It’s only an arm gate that comes down, not a wall they’d have to scale!
Lucille Corcoran-Manzella its the new pedestrian gate that they are leaving unlocked.
And now it begins…… Setting precedence. They are schooled on how to do things
LMFAO they can’t drive during the Sabbath so why is the gate even a problem… FYI, the gate isn’t new so… now you are putting your neighbors at risk for your incredible selfishness. I hope they sue.
Amanda Hinkson they arent bitching about the gate for cars… if you actually read the article its about the pedestrian gate
Honestly they shouldn’t be in a gated community if they are going to complain about it being gated
However the better choice for that Gated Community would be to have it where the security guards can hit a button to open the pedestrian gate for them
They knew damn well that it was part of a gated community when they bought
But well looks like another Lakewood community in the making
Go back to where you came from
Lisa Perosi-Morelli what about this one?! Keeps better ?
I don’t agree with this. “Gated” community? Why can’t those who observe sabbath that strictly simply have someone at the gate to open it for then? This needs to go to appeals.
The next issue will be the pool. Men and women can’t swim together. Wait for it…
Stacey Powers that’s been brought up already and the swim times were changed to accommodate their religious beliefs. I don’t remember where…
If I were a resident I’d counter sue. Ridiculous
Mean while late at night they sit late at night in the Starbucks parking lot getting free wifi so they can look at porn but its ok that they our disrupting every ones else life style so rude they have no respect for others
Oh for the love of God… now everyone else has a security issue since the gate is now not locked one day a week… it was known when the person moved in. This is just crazy.
Arghhh…..
Stephanie Marie
Now someone needs to counter-sue because the neighborhood is now left unsafe and unattended
Gotta get some normies to sue for having their security compromised
Ahhhhh the ever so famous Religious Freedom lawsuit!! Well its just exhausting
Anne Palumbo-Landolfi why would you buy there if this was a problem for you. Why because they will just change the rules and everyone else’s life.
Ginny DeMeo dont we know it!!?? If they would just move Into an adult community that have rules and regulations..sign them..then live in peace with the rest of us..without the threats of taking over our retirement homes..what a wonderful world this would be! #Bullyarrogantjackasses
Ginny DeMeo wish they would get out of here
I wish this was my dads community. I would
Sue them because when he purchased his home he was told
It was a GATED community …. now one day it’s
NOT??? However when the one who knew it was gated and can argue to sue that it shouldn’t be gated????
What in the actual F is going on here ?
SUE THE COMMUNITY FOR LEAVING IT UNGATED
That was in the papers when they purchased or rented from that
Community
Michelle Rutledge unless he can’t read he signed that contract as well so he should shut up and duck
Michelle Rutledge I’m sure contest doesn’t say gates will be opened on sabbath
Michele Burciar exactly
Get your news straight Ocean County Scanner. The Enclave and The Fairways are 2 different developments and NOT even physically touching.
Disgusting
I told ya these people are sucking us dry any way they can. The judge that allows that should be ashamed of himself.
Tom Wolfe
Oh God just get em out! They are so nasty to everyone else in the community and not to mention disrespectful. Ever have to clean up after them? YUCK. They’d leave Jenkinsons in shambles behind them. ?♀️ backwards as hell
and now the take over begins
Wtf is going on with these people!!! Enough already
This is why everyone hates them!
Rachel Delp ??
What happens if some things start happening now that this gate is going to be open? I mean it’s a real possibility, no?
Humm, they are not suppose to drive on the sabbath. can’t they walk around the gate?
Elva Wilson Exactly Elva!! Why can’t they!
What a crock of shit.
Why did he move into a GATED community? This makes me so angry!
I’m suing cause I feel my lifes in danger every Sunday on parkway south and route 9 south past 120 and manalapan. These new Yorkers need to learn nj driving.
?
That’s effed up
Yep, once again these idiots get their way! They should have moved to one of the many compounds that their alike friends live! That way there wouldn’t be a need for them to go against their religion. Force them to sell in the gated communities if they feel that they are being discriminated against!
If I paid for a GATED community and the gates left open I would COUNTER SUE!!
What…..you can go in and out anytime as long as you live in that community and have a gate pass so what are they talking about.
It’s a gated community that’s what you pay your HOA fees for . They knew that moving into the community. End of the discussion.
ridiculous. to put an entire community at risk for one resident.
They knew the association rules before they moved in and now it’s a problem
Why would they need the gates open they dont and cant drive on Shabbos
if this moron gets more than a few hundred i am personally suing them
The safety of many jeopardized to accommodate the religious demands of few!
This is very sad , I’m sure before buying they had to sign a copy of rules.also they came to look at the house , and had to go thru the gates…was he really that stupid to realize the gates would present a problem on his holy day??
Amazing
Why it that the orthodox get away with everything they are sue happy
But like, they knew it was gated when they moved in. ??♀️?
This is why people move into gated communities to feel safe…
If you have “special needs” like that, don’t you think you should check things out BEFORE you buy?? Why didn’t they check the pool rules, gate restrictions, etc. BEFORE they bought. Oh yeah…..because the entire world revolves around them and they don’t have to abide by our rules. They yell anti Semitism when things don’t go their way, but they do nothing to assimilate into the communities they move into. And they wonder why people have bad attitudes towards them. SMH
The Orthodox community found a loophole in the senior community bylaws and promptly sued to get what they wanted. Thought the Orthodox people did not drive on their Sabbath, so why would they need to leave their gates open? Horse and buggy gotta get through?
Their religion prohibits them to drive during the sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown on Saturday so what’s the complaint?
Daniel DeVello its the pedestrian gate that is electronic if you actually read the article
Christine Hinds You are correct My mistake but the gate is their to prevent people not living there to enter.Why can’t they asked the guard to just open up the gate ?
Christine Hinds You’re correct my mistake. But the gate is their to prevent people who do not live there from entering. That’s why people chose to live their because they feel safe and their willing to pay the cost of the HOA fees . It has nothing to do with religion. My argument is they knew the community is a gated community before they moved there. That’s their choice and I think it’s unfair that an association that has rules that are written in their contact have to cave in and bend them because of someone’s beliefs.
people choose gated communities for their safety. this is ridiculous. the one is complaining knew when they moved there that is how it is
Who the hell do they think they are?? and they don’t even pay taxes like the rest of residents do!! This is out of hand.
This is several levels above BS at this point!!!!
and one other important fact…They CANNOT DRIVE on the Sabbath so who is coming into the community? You mean they are walking through the gates??
What does it matter is the gates are up or down they can’t drive?
They can just walk around
why they don’t drive anyway on those days
If they can’t use the card. Then they can’t drive too…..
Then why did you move there? Total BS! Ever notice that this religious group gets away with everything. What about the rest of the residents that live there. They bought their homes because they wanted a secure development.
Oh bullshit,!
What?? Not supposed to drive on the Sabbath!!
What load of shit. If that was me I’d be told to pound salt….wtf
These people know the rules of the community when they purchase. And once one moves in they try to change things. Totally ridiculous!
Then they shouldn’t have moved to a gated community! This is legit NOT FAIR to those that bought there for the security.
That’s totally bullshit!
Joseph C Fagliarone. This is such Bullshit !!
Sounds safe ?
Wouldn’t matter. Somehow they always win ?
Claire
Why would you buy in a gated community if you didn’t want gates ?
Walk around