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It sounds like the Jewish folks found these tunnels while trying to illegally expand their Temple, and after these tunnels were discovered, the Jewish folks were going to fill them in with concrete, and that set off someone over at city hall prompting the NYPD to come in.
It's either that or that the Jewish folks were not really going to expand their Temple and was just prepping escape tunnels. I wouldn't blame them if they did, given how pro-Hummus New York is becoming.
The alleged rogue members of the movement advanced by the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson had reportedly been digging the tunnel under the 100-year-old synagogue for nearly a year.
The tunnel apparently was designed to reach the abandoned women’s mikvah — or ritual bath — around the corner to “expand” the synagogue, according to the Jewish outlet Forward.
It took months, perhaps years, for a small crew of Lubavitchers to dig a secret passageway underneath the famed headquarters of the Chabad movement. They would not let it be filled so easily.
The New York Police Department was called Monday to 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, where a number of Chabad students — most in their teens and early 20s — mounted a last stand against construction crews called to fill in the tunnel connecting the synagogue at that location to the defunct Chabad mikvah around the corner.
In videos circulating on community news sources and social media, Lubavitchers can be seen ripping down the wood paneling on the south wall of the synagogue, revealing a cavernous concrete space about 20 feet wide underneath the women’s section. Several young men were sitting or standing in the space — apparently to prevent it from being filled — as scores of others watched or recorded video on their phones.
NYPD eventually made 10 arrests, according to community news outlet CrownHeights.info. Video showed several men in Hasidic garb being led out, their wrists bound with zip ties.
The images of destruction inside a sacred space at the center of Chabad spiritual life were painful for many Lubavitchers, who rushed to condemn it.
Crown Heights Police clashed with extremist members of the Chabad community members in the historic 770 synagogue after illegal construction work was discovered within.
Authorities found a large underground tunnel in the main study hall, which several students claim to have dug in an attempt to expand the building.
Police arrived to seal the tunnel and ordered cement trucks to fill it in. Several extremists from the community entered the tunnel in protest, and a violent altercation with the police erupted as officers attempted to clear them out and allow the sealing work to continue.
According to the Daily Caller, the tunnel was first reported by neighbors in late 2023, when a project to upgrade the buildings plumbing was underway. Neighbors of the building reported suspicious noises under their homes. With the discovery of the tunnel, many began to fear for the safety of the building and the ones next to it, as the tunnel stretched under at least one other building.
Two media members were heard cracking jokes over a hot mic Tuesday about former President Donald Trump being cut down by an assassin’s bullet as they waited for him to appear at the federal courthouse in Washington.
The unidentified male journalists had their news cameras stationed outside the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse when they started to grouse about the difficulties of getting a view of the 77-year-old 2024 Republican front-runner.
Donald Trump’s attorneys argued Tuesday that presidents can’t be convicted of a crime if not impeached first – but a panel of appellate judges seemed skeptical.
“Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival (and is) not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?” asked Judge Florence Pan during a 90-minute hearing in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
A pack of rats was seen bunking with a homeless man at a New York City subway station before scurrying off as people approached, horrifying footage shows.
The viral clip, posted on Jan. 8 by @six4bk78, shows a homeless man sleeping on the ground underneath a gray blanket with just his shoes exposed at the end of a subway platform.
Nearby straphangers can be heard giggling at the beginning of the video as a few rats scamper away from the blanket toward the subway tracks.
The man filming walks up to the sleeping form and says, “Yo.” Movement can be seen under the blanket as the man repeats, “Yo” a little louder, which finally stirs the homeless man.
As he pushes the blanket away, more than a dozen rats scurry away, the video, which had “Only in New York City Transit” and a rat emoji over it.
BOMBSHELL REPORT: ⚠️ Judge Florence Y. Pan who is 1 of 3 judges currently ruling on Trump’s immunity appeal is MARRIED TO OUTSPOKEN TRUMP HATING ATTORNEY and CEO of DC based Partnership for Public Service Max Stier..