Looks like the child rape allegations may have weight to them. An article from 2013 says that a Rabbi who witnessed a child get raped in a mikvah (a ritual Jewish bathhouse used for purification) in 2005 and was shunned from the Orthodox Jewish community. The same article describes how the Orthodox Jewish community lives. They live like a cult. Dumbing down the men and women and controlling every aspect of their lives. I can now see why De Blasio didn't like them.
From Daily Mail Article:
The synagogue in question is known as 770 thanks to its address at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section.
It is the world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect.
The dispute is believed to stem from a decades-long schism within the Chabad - one of the largest groups of Hasidic Jews in the world - which pitches the Chabad-Lubavitch movement against the synagogue leadership, as the groups fight over possession of the building.
Rabbi Motti Seligson, the media director of the Chabad-Lubavitch, blamed the chaos on a 'a group of extremist students' who allegedly broke through the walls of the other buildings in order to build the tunnel which could have given them 'unauthorized access' the synagogue.
'Lubavitch officials have attempted to gain proper control of the premises through the New York State court system; unfortunately, despite consistently prevailing in court, the process has dragged on for years,' Seligson said.
Chabad-Lubavitch news outlet Col Live referred to the young men who built the tunnel as 'meshichists,' those who believe that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the messiah. The website also said that the group were 'mostly from Israel.'
According to CrownHeights.Info, the mikvah where the tunnellers began their digging had not been used in years and provided a good cover for them store their equipment.
CrownHeights.Info's reporting indicates that construction workers found the tunnel while digging a trench for a waterline in the area. The report says that the tunneling began in June 2023.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12942605/Inside-secret-tunnel-built-extremist-Jewish-students-linking-historic-cleansing-bath-Brooklyn-synagogue-discovered-homeowner-heard-suspicious-noises-night.html
Looks like the child rape allegations may have weight to them. An article from 2013 says that a Rabbi who witnessed a child get raped in a mikvah (a ritual Jewish bathhouse used for purification) in 2005 and was shunned from the Orthodox Jewish community. The same article describes how the Orthodox Jewish community lives. They live like a cult. Dumbing down the men and women and controlling every aspect of their lives. I can now see why De Blasio didn't like them.
From Daily Mail Article:
Still doesn't look good either way.