This paper considers a planning dispute that surrounded the construction of a Jewish religious installation (called an eruv) in the public urban space of an Australian suburb. The aim of this case-study is to examine the role of law in regulating Jewish difference – a topic that has to date received little attention in the socio-legal literature concerned with the governance of religious diversity. In analysing residents’ objections to the eruv, the paper explores long-standing anxieties about Jewish particularity in Australia and beyond as they surfaced in opposition to the eruv. It shows how the law continues to exclude certain forms of Jewish difference that are perceived as transgressing dominant religious and racial norms. Moreover, the paper highlights the particular ways in which planning law assigned value to these anxieties and legitimised the marginalisation of Orthodox Jews, emphasising the significance of local law as a site for exclusion and inequality.

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电线带来的不同：澳大利亚的规划法、公共正统犹太教和城市空间

本文考虑了围绕在澳大利亚郊区公共城市空间建造犹太宗教设施（称为 eruv）的规划争议。本案例研究的目的是检验法律在规范犹太人差异方面的作用——迄今为止，这一主题在与宗教多样性治理有关的社会法律文献中很少受到关注。在分析居民对 eruv 的反对意见时，该论文探讨了长期以来对澳大利亚及其他地区犹太人特殊性的担忧，因为他们在反对 eruv 时浮出水面。它显示了法律如何继续排除某些形式的犹太人差异，这些差异被视为违反主要的宗教和种族规范。而且，