Jewish family receives legal notice from condo association to remove sukkah

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A South Florida Jewish household says they obtained a threatening letter from their condominium affiliation as they mark a conventional vacation.

The affiliation says they’ll’t have fun exterior.

“A sukkah can’t be beneath one other object like a constructing, and it can’t be beneath a dwelling tree,” Farrell Goldsmith advised Native 10 Information.

The sukkah appears like a tent and is a spot for individuals to assemble, marking a week-long Jewish vacation.

For individuals who have fun it, the which means is profound.

“Of escaping racism and anti-Semitism,” Adi Soozin stated.

However these inserting their sukkahs exterior their properties on the Greens of Emerald Hills neighborhood in Hollywood are actually being hit with a authorized discover to take them down.

The letter despatched by an legal professional for the affiliation to at the least one resident states that sukkahs positioned exterior the house violate the apartment affiliation’s guidelines, claiming driveways are frequent areas which should not be obstructed.

It additionally threatens authorized recourse if the sukkahs will not be eliminated.

“It’s commemorating the Jews once we got here out of slavery in Egypt,” Goldsmith stated.

Those that need their sukkahs exterior see it as a spiritual vacation ornament they need to have the fitting to have exterior their residence, very similar to Halloween decorations others have.

“It’s actually not the identical factor as a result of a Halloween ornament doesn’t have individuals congregating,” the affiliation’s president Carol Suss stated.

Suss believes this isn’t a spiritual situation, however says it’s concerning the guidelines.

“I’m Jewish,” she stated. “I’ve nothing towards sukkahs.”