An Orthodox Jew claims he was booted by a Long Island
landlord who demanded that he remove the treasured religious artifact from his
apartment door and declared, “This is a Christian residence.”
Arye Sachs says the mezuzah, a piece of parchment inscribed
with verses from the Torah and typically hung in a special case at the entrance
of a Jewish home, is a precious family heirloom handed down from his
grandfather, a victim of the Holocaust.
In a Brooklyn federal lawsuit, Sachs, 53, calls the mezuzah
a “priceless, irreplaceable protector” that helped him recover from three
strokes and even made his divorce “one of the most amicable and peaceful
divorces known to man.”
He claims that landlord Margarita Pascale, 57, repeatedly
told him to take the mezuzah down from the door of the North Babylon home where
she rented him an apartment and that she then evicted him when he didn’t.
“Pascal [sic] informed me this residence is a Christian
residence, and if I will not remove my mezuzah, I will be out ‘on the street,’
” Sachs alleges.
He says he discovered the mezuzah missing after returning
from a trip last month. Pascale did not return a call for comment.
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