Q: I live in a condo in Long Branch, N.J., that wants to change its building policies to support Jewish customs. The board wants to make the condo’s restaurant kosher and install an eruv, a ropelike ritual enclosure that surrounds the building to allow more freedom of movement during Sabbath. Not all residents in the building follow these religious customs. Can the board impose the customs of a portion of the residents on everyone?

A: A condo can’t discriminate against residents, but changing the menu at a restaurant or erecting a ceremonial rope doesn’t infringe on anyone else’s ability to live freely.

The board could decide to make the restaurant vegetarian. Meat eaters might be disappointed, but so long as they’re not denied entry, they’re not being harmed.

The same goes for a kosher restaurant — you don’t have to be Jewish to eat kosher food. “The fact that the restaurant is kosher is not an imposition of a religious obligation on anybody, it’s just that’s the kind of food you can get there,” said J. David Ramsey, a real estate lawyer in the Morristown, N.J., office of the law firm Becker.