A Jewish man, Nathan Reiss, who lives in The Enclave, a 55-and-over community in Lakewood, filed a state discrimination complaint in December 2017 claiming that The Enclave’s pedestrian gate prevented him from walking to synagogue because it required an electronic key card.
Earlier this week, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced a deal had been struck between Reiss and The Enclave and that the pedestrian gate would remain unlocked on Shabbat and holidays. Observant Jews don’t use electricity on what they call “yom tov.”
According to the Lakewood Scoop report, Orthodox Jews constitute an ever-growing majority of the 25-square-mile township’s roughly 100,000 residents.