This poster is an artifact of the controversy that raged in the New York Jewish community in the 1950s and early 1960s, over a proposal to construct an eruv in Manhattan.

This is a proclamation dated 18 June 1962 by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, signed by five of the most prominent rabbis of the time, banning the proposed construction of an eruv in Manhattan. It was published as a handbill or poster and circulated in the Jewish community. It has been republished (without permission of the original authors) and circulated many times since then, whenever similar proposals are raised in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or any similar city.

This was a reply to the handbill promulgated on 15 March 1960, which was signed by 14 prominent New York rabbis, in which they had declared their support for the project. It can be seen at [[:Image:Rabbanim Supporting the Manhattan copy.jpg]].

As a result of this proclamation a Manhattan was eventually built under the auspices of Rabbi Norman Lamm, the head of Yeshiva University, but remained controversial, and even disregarded by many. That Manhattan Eruv became defunct in 2005 as a result of financial and communal disregard and in its place, a separate West Side, East Side, and Washington Heights Eruv were built.

Scanned by User:Judae1 (Juda Engelmayer) from a publicly circulated handbill.

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The image is of a handbill promulgated by a committee of rabbis to elicit public support for a position they had taken. By its nature it was intended to be copied and republished far and wide. In addition, it was published in the USA before 1989 and does not bear a copyright notice, therefore falling into the public domain. It cannot have been registered after that date, because many of the signatories were no longer alive.