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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Driver smashes car into Chabad’s world headquarters in Brooklyn
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A driver smashes a car into a side entrance of the Chabad movement’s world headquarters in New York City.
Video shows a car repeatedly ramming into the building’s doors.
A car just drove into the side doors of 770 at Chabad Headquarters. Baruch Hashem, there are no injuries. Witnesses report the driver yelled for people to move as he drove in. It appears intentional. The synagogue has been evacuated as a precaution.
Please stay away from the… pic.twitter.com/ljsoZ0sIE7
— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) January 29, 2026
The driver’s motivation and further details are unclear.
The building 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is known colloquially as “770” and revered worldwide.
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