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New York synagogue raid reveals hidden tunnels

Police clashed with Orthodox Jews who fought to defend passages they had apparently dug under the city streets.

Police in New York made multiple arrests on Monday after crowds of Orthodox Jews rioted when construction crews attempted to fill in secret tunnels that had been dug under a synagogue.

Officers were called to the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters to deal with a crowd of young Jewish men who had allegedly vandalized cement trucks brought in by municipal workers to seal off a tunnel under the building.

Known locally as ‘The 770’ after its address at 770 Eastern Parkway in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights, the building is the headquarters of the Chabad movement, which is one of the world’s largest Hasidic Jewish organizations.

As officers moved into the synagogue, men in traditional Jewish garb began pulling wooden panels off the interior walls in an apparent effort to widen the entrance to the tunnel. Crowds jeered at police officers who tried to pull protesters from the tunnel entrance, and ten people were arrested following scuffles between police and worshippers, local news site Crown Heights Info reported.

 

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Multiple entrances to the tunnel system were secured, Crown Heights Info said.

It is unclear when the tunnels were dug or for what reason. Unverified sources on social media suggested that they were excavated during the 2020 and 2021 coronavirus lockdowns so that members of the Chabad could pray in secret. Jewish news site Forward claimed that they were dug in the last year or two in order to illegally expand the building.

Video footage posted in December and reports from the Chabad on Monday suggest that one tunnel connects the synagogue with a disused mikvah on nearby Union Street. A mikvah is a ritual bath used by Orthodox Jews to ‘purify’ new converts or women before marriage.

The tunnels were discovered in December when local residents complained of suspicious noises coming from underneath their homes. Construction workers laying pipes near the synagogue then came across a tunnel and alerted Chabad authorities. According to Hasidic news site COLive, a schism over religious doctrine and ownership of the building had emerged between the Chabad movement and a group of young Jews who came “mostly from Israel.” This latter group was allegedly responsible for digging the tunnels.

Chabad-Lubavitch chairman Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky condemned the “vandalism,” calling those responsible “young agitators.”

“These odious actions will be investigated, and the sanctity of the synagogue will be restored,” Krinsky wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Our thanks to the NYPD for their professionalism and sensitivity.”

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  1. Just last month, 9/11 was confirmed to be a Mossad Ops by the Professors at the U.S. Army War College.
    Remember the footage that an apartment resident took of ‘The Dancing Israelis’ as the Twin Towers of the NY Trade Center burned and then collapsed in a controlled demolition?
    And then, we had Building 7 blow-straight down, also in a controlled demolition.
    The Hansidic Jews from Israel are radicalised Talmudists, and the tunnels probably served as a hiding place and sacrificial facility (based on the adrenalchrome screaming…) based on the already in-place plumbing.
    The J*** in the Warsaw Ghetto used tunnels, Resistance Fighters in Amsterdam used tunnels, the Vietnamese used tunnels, and the Gazans are now using Israeli-built tunnels in the same locale.

  2. Tunnels …
    Tunnels in New York.
    Tunnels in Ukraine.
    Tunnels in Gaza.
    Tunnels in Lebanon.
    Umm …
    Anything to do with children?
    The truth will not be for everyone.

  3. The Dancing Isralies
    Waiting for planes that would never come
    Because there were no planes
    All part of the deception
    Like Tim Osman British Army alias Osama Bin Laden CIA asset who died in a US Military Base Hospital in Pakistan in 2001 from renal failure
    https://rumble.com/v45cl60-what-really-happened-on-911-richard-gage-of-richardgage911-joins-roger-ston.html
    http://whale.to/b/building_7.html
    WTC 7 was also holding documents pertinent to the ongoing Enron fraud investigation
    Just like in Oklahoma the Federal Murrah Building was holding documents pertinent to the failed Penn Square Bank

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