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Condo Board Backs Down on Mezuzah Ban

It was all a misunderstanding, says the condominium association's lawyer.

A woman can keep a mezuzah on the doorpost of her condominium unit at the California Condominiums, a week after $50 a day if she didn’t remove it.

The Connecticut Post reported that Kurt Ahlberg, the lawyer for the condo association, apologized to Barbara Cadranel and said that it was all a misunderstanding. Ahlberg told the newspaper he was on vacation last week when the controversy erupted.

The condominium bylaws prohibit hanging objects on unit’s doorposts, although Judaism has a commandment to hang a mezuzah, a small plaque containing a scroll inscribed with a Hebrew prayer, to the doorpost.

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Cadranel had threatened a lawsuit against the condominium association, and the story received national attention in the news media.

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