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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Motti Seligson, a spokesperson for Chabad, said a "group of extremist students" had secretly broken through the walls of vacant building behind the headquarters, creating an underground passage beneath a row of office buildings and lecture halls that eventually connected to the synagogue. [...] The property’s manager brought in a construction crew Monday to fix the damaged walls, leading to a standoff with those who wanted the passageway to remain.

I'm sorry, wtf? While admittedly cool, wtf do you need a secret passageway through the basements of multiple buildings into your synagogue? And they completely gloss over what we on the other end of the secret passage - was it hidden behind a dumpster, a fake wall inside a speakeasy, someone's basement?

[–] Pipoca 1 points 1 year ago

The lubbavitcher rebbe said a couple years before he died that he wanted his synagogue expanded.

There's been a bit of a power vacuum since he died, and expanding the building hasn't been possible due to court cases over the building's ownership.

A bunch of the students think that the rebbe is coming back as the messiah, were bored and decided that they could start the expansion by tunneling into the basement from a couple buildings over.

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