In a recent shiur, Rabbi Daniel Osher Kleinman, Rov of K’hal Nachlas Dovid in Brooklyn and author of many seforim, revealed how, beyond the many halachic questions, the “Brooklyn Eruv” is faulty and fraudulent.
Many leading poskim, including Rav Moshe Feinstein, as well as R’ Zalman Shimon Dworkin and other Lubavitch rabbonim, held that an eruv in Brooklyn could not possibly be established since the area is a reshus harabbim d’oraisa. Yet, Rabbi Kleinman acknowledged, there were rabbonim who held it was possible. Regardless, the “Brooklyn Eruv” is problematic according to all.
Unlike other places, where the eruv is checked weekly under competent rabbinic supervision, he said, Brooklyn has no consistent oversight by rabbonim. Rabbi Kleinman recounted firsthand investigations showing that many sections of the Brooklyn eruv were discovered to be broken and fundamentally flawed…