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| Cops clash with dozens of Orthodox men in synagogue as riot breaks out over secret underground tunnel | |
| 2024-01-09 | |
| [NYPost] A riot broke out in a historic Brooklyn synagogue when a group of rebellious Orthodox men tried to stop police and construction crews from filling in a secret tunnel they illegally dug to reach a closed-down women’s bath. The enraged men, thought to be mostly in their teens and early 20s, were filmed tearing down wood panels and wooden support beams Monday at the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights. Other footage from the temple on Eastern Parkway showed cops trying to hold back dozens of Hasidic Jewish men as they pushed their way into the 20-foot-wide enclosure underneath the women’s section, toppling over wooden pews in their anger. Synagogue leader Rabbi Yosef Braun condemned those involved, saying they arrived "ready to destroy and deface the Holy Walls" — calling it "mind-boggling." Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have reportedly been digging a tunnel under the Crown Heights synagogue for nearly a year. It was apparently designed to reach an abandoned women’s mikvah — or ritual bath — around the corner and "expand" the synagogue, according to the Jewish outlet Forward, but it is unclear what motivated the members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community to start digging the passage.
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| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #6 Never underestimate the ability of religious fanatics to gross out normies. I can remember when underground tunneling was considered cool. |
| Posted by: jpal 2024-01-09 16:32 |
| #5 Maybe religious fanatics of all ilk have taken to tunneling. |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2024-01-09 16:23 |
| #4 Same people who think parents b belong in jail if they don't back "gender affirming care" freak out about how these groups treat their kids. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-09 13:22 |
| #3 Not merely a sect, but a full blown leader-worshipping cult. The Lubavichers are the ones who have have prayer rooms around the world for travellers as part of their outreach to the non-Chassidic Jewish majority, and put up gigantic Hanukkah menorahs next to community Christmas displays for the same reason. All the other Chassidic groups are entirely insular, as disconnected from the outside world as they were in the shtetls back in Eastern Europe. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-09 12:52 |
| #2 On the other hand, Mike. Ultra-orthodox are sects - each with it's leader (a linear descendant of the founder), who's a supreme spiritual authority. There are are Christian sects - are you surprised when you find something nasty about one of them? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-09 12:40 |
| #1 It was apparently designed to reach an abandoned women’s mikvah — or ritual bath — around the corner and "expand" the synagogue, according to the Jewish outlet Forward, but it is unclear what motivated the members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community to start digging the passage. My first thought is that they wanted to reopen the mikvah, some bureaucrat Downtown was going to make them jump through hoops to do so, and the congregation said (and quite reasonably, IMHO) "The hell with that." NYC has not been an entirely friendly place to Jews lately. If this was the case, and this group decided this is where they were drawing a line, I'm on their side. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-01-09 12:21 |