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A secret tunnel in a NYC synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers
A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway.
The discovery of the tunnel at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights prompted an emergency structural inspection from the city Tuesday.
The building at 770 Eastern Parkway was once home to the movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and draws thousands of visitors each year. Its Gothic Revival facade is immediately recognizable to adherents of the Chabad movement and replicas of the revered building have been constructed all over the world.
Motti Seligson, a spokesperson for Chabad, said a “group of extremist students” had secretly broken through the walls of a vacant building behind the headquarters, creating an underground passage beneath a row of office buildings and lecture halls that eventually connected to the synagogue.
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When I lived & worked in Manhattan in the late 60s I had to walk east on 47th Street through the diamond district. A lot of these heavily orthodox Jews worked as diamond cutters & jewelry finishers, a trade they had brought with them from Europe. I hate to seem rejudiced, but these guys who only wore black & who never trimmed their side burns always looked like they sorely needed a shower. They all lived in enclaves in Brooklyn & were bused to work.
