KRT Wire | 02/03/2007 | Condo association criticized over ban on mezuzahs
As well they should be. L'chaim.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Laurie Richter says Jewish law requires her to attach a mezuzah to her doorpost. But the board that runs The Port condominium says displaying the 5-inch-long case with a religious message inside violates the condo documents and has ordered it removed. Because wreaths were allowed on doors during Christmas, Richter accuses her board of discrimination. "I don't want to be causing any rifts here so Christians can't hang wreaths, but it seems the rights of Jewish people are being violated because Christians don't have to hang wreaths but we have to hang mezuzahs," she said. The association that runs the 16-story, 129-unit condo cites the bylaws that prohibit owners and occupants from attaching, hanging, affixing or displaying anything on the exterior walls, doors, balconies, railings and windows of the building.