'Eruv' on cards for Sea Point Jewry soon

London, New York, Paris and Johannesburg have at least one.

Now it is time for Cape Town to demarcate eruvs - areas incorporating public and private properties within which orthodox Jews may push prams and wheelchairs, and carry keys, on the Sabbath and Yom Kippur.

The Jewish community in Sea Point is a step closer to being able to demarcate an eruv now that a city council committee has recommended that the economic environmental and spatial planning directorate develop a citywide eruv policy.

A temporary eruv has been demarcated for the Sea Point community and includes properties from Glengariff Road to Clifton .

Last year Sea Point resident Soren Elvin-Jensen complained to Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille that eruvs were "unconstitutional".

But Alan Levin, a spokesman for the area's eruv committee, said there was strong local support for the establishment of an eruv.

"We tried to make it so that it is completely friendly to the environment," he said.