12 Arrested as Fracas Breaks Out at Chabad headquarters

 

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Good morning, New York. It was a wild day in NYC yesterday, beginning with major traffic snarls as pro-Palestinian protests blocked traffic on the East River bridges and the Holland Tunnel, and ending with a chaotic scene over illicit tunnels at the Chabad movement’s Crown Heights headquarters that ended with 12 arrests. Keep scrolling for the details on these events — plus everything else Jewish New Yorkers are talking about today!

12 arrested as fracas breaks out over tunnel at Chabad headquarters Police arrested 12 people at the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Monday evening as chaos broke out during a dispute over a tunnel into the building — which, according to a Chabad spokesperson, was opened by Chabad “extremists” seeking unauthorized access to parts of the building.   The fracas broke out after a cement truck was brought in to repair the building’s walls and seal off the tunnel, whose purpose and size remain unclear. No injuries were reported, according to the NYPD.    The incident occurred in a busy synagogue adjoining the Hasidic movement’s headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, the office of the late Chabad leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.