From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
WATCH: Students dug tunnel into Chabad HQ, attempt to violently prevent its sealing
In remarkable scenes, New York police prevent a group of young Chabad students from disrupting the sealing of a tunnel they apparently had secretly dug into the Lubavich movement’s headquarters.
https://twitter.com/SamuelSokol/status/1744604590945743172
The group entered the tunnel, apparently dug in the last year, which provided unauthorized access to the synagogue on 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, and started studying Torah inside it.
https://twitter.com/FrumTikTok/status/1744496119936164129
Cops are subsequently called in to extract the students from the tunnel. They arrest some, after the group is filmed attempting to violently protest the police action.
The Chabad movement issues a statement denouncing the students’ actions.
STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS
The Chabad-Lubavitch community is pained by the vandalism of a group of young agitators who damaged the synagogue below Chabad Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway Monday night.
These odious actions will be investigated, and the… pic.twitter.com/Ysn0jr7FTr
— Chabad Lubavitch HQ (@Lubavitch) January 9, 2024
It isn’t clear why exactly the tunnel was built.
The Times of Israel Community.