Video reveals the inside of a strange tunnel built by a group of young Hasidic Jewish men under a historic Brooklyn synagogue.
The footage, posted on CrownHeights.Info’s Instagram, takes viewers down a staircase and through a hallway to a dirt-filled room where a roughly 2-foot-by-2-foot grate has been removed from the wall of the building, which adjoins the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights.
The videographer then crawled through the hole, which led to a 3-foot-tall underground tunnel that reportedly extended about 50 feet and around two corners to the headquarters location of his closed men’s ritual bath.
A photo shared on the CrownHeights.Info website shows beer cans by the tunnel and hanging electrical wires.
In the dirt-filled room of the adjacent building, clothes and other items can be seen scattered around, apparently abandoned by rebel diggers of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Footage has emerged showing the extent of a tunnel built by a group of Orthodox Jewish men under a historic Brooklyn synagogue. Instagram/@chinfo.official
Members of the rogue movement alleged by the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson have reportedly been digging tunnels under the 100-year-old synagogue for nearly a year.
The tunnel was apparently designed to reach the abandoned men’s mikvah — or ritual bath — around the corner to “expand” the synagogue, according to the Jewish outlet Forward.
The underground passage was not discovered until last month, when neighbors reported suspicious noises coming from under their home, Israel’s National News reported.
Clothes and other items can be seen scattered around the room leading to the tunnel. Instagram/@chinfo.official Members of an alleged rogue movement led by the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson have reportedly been digging tunnels under the 100-year-old synagogue for nearly a year.
“Some time ago, a group of extremist students, broke down several walls on the property adjacent to the synagogue at 784-788 Eastern Parkway, to give them unauthorized access,” Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad-Lubavitch, said in an email. statement to The Post.
“Earlier today, a cement truck was brought in to repair the wall. The effort was hampered by extremists who broke down the walls to the synagogue, damaging the holy place, in an effort to maintain their unauthorized access.”
“They have been arrested and the building is closed pending a structural safety review.
“Lubavitch officials have attempted to obtain proper control of the premises through the New York State court system; unfortunately, even with consistency in court, the process has dragged on for years,” Seligson said.
“This, obviously, is very troubling for the Lubavitch movement, and the Jewish community around the world. We hope and pray that we can restore the sanctity and decency of this holy place soon.”
Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement who built the tunnel apparently used the room to hide debris from their digging efforts. Instagram/@chinfo.official A hole in the far wall leads to a tunnel. Instagram/@chinfo.official
Another statement from the headquarters added that the “group of young troublemakers” were “mainly in the US on student visas.
“These people have squatted in the synagogue and tried to take control by demolishing the wall to connect the basement to the adjacent building, intending to ‘expand’ the sanctuary,” he said.
“Steps are being taken to cancel their student visas and send them back to their countries of origin.”
After the discovery of the tunnel, the synagogue’s leadership called in a structural engineer to assess the damage to the building, and on Monday, a cement mixer arrived to fill it, sparking a riot.
The group of renegade Orthodox Jewish men, thought to be mostly in their teens and early 20s, were filmed tearing down wooden panels and wooden support beams as they desperately tried to get into their tunnel.
Riots broke out on Monday when concrete mixers arrived at the synagogue to fill the tunnel. @FrumTikTok/X At least a dozen men were arrested after police tried to stop them from entering the tunnel. @FrumTikTok/X
Another footage from the temple on Eastern Parkway shows police tried to detain dozens of Hasidic Jewish men as they pushed their way into the 20-foot-wide enclosure, knocking over wooden benches in their rage.
At least a dozen men have been arrested, sources told The Post. Ten received criminal misdemeanor charges, another was charged with obstructing government administration, while another received a summons for disorderly conduct, sources said.
No injuries were reported in the fight.
The clash involves Schneerson’s headquarters and former home, a site that has been at the center of controversy before.
A violent incident in 2004 over a plaque outside the building led to a lawsuit over who the rightful owner was, and in 2006, a New York court awarded control of the building to Agudath Chaseidi Chabad.
Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton
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