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It’s not every day that one gets to see video of a Hasidic Jew crawling up out of a Brooklyn sidewalk grate like a rat escaping an exterminator, so we should all savor this moment as we try to figure out the whys and the wherefores of this startling spectacle.
At some point on Monday, officials at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights called in a cement truck and asked contractors to fill some Secret Jew Tunnels beneath their property with enough concrete so that either: (a) their entire synagogue would be safe from an imminent structural collapse; (b) they could hide whatever had been going on down in those Secret Jew Tunnels; or (c): both (a) and (b).
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For reasons that are only clear to the Holy Jew God and certain Jew Insiders to whom I do not have access, the sight of this cement truck did not sit well with some of the younger Chabadniks, who proceeded to dismantle plywood and drywall in a section of the synagogue that had hidden the Secret Jew Tunnels from public scrutiny. In the course of their eager acts of wanton destruction, they pulled out what appeared to be a blood-stained mattress and continued hammering away at bricks until a group of them defiantly squatted inside the giant hole in the wall, offering themselves as Jewman Shields against anyone foolish, ungodly, or sadistic enough to proceed with the cement-pouring. Police began arresting some of the Young Jew Upstarts as many in the crowd cheered the arrestees as political heroes.
Apparently, the lone Jew who’d crawled up from the sidewalk grate had clawed his way to temporary freedom via one of their designated escape tunnels.
The whole crazy scene presents quite a large kosher buffet for a goyishe cub reporter such as myself to digest. So what’s all the hubbub about, bubeleh?
On Christmas Eve, the Instagram account for something called Crown Heights Info posted a video purportedly showing the “Union Mikvah and tunnel that leads toward 770.”
For the smattering of non-Hasidim out there, a mikvah is a ritual bath used to purify one’s body, especially if you’re a dirty, dripping woman who’s on the rag. And “770” is shorthand for 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, home of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters.
Very few people can agree on when or why these tunnels were dug, but neighbors who lived adjacent to the Chabad complex had recently begun complaining about hearing odd sounds coming from under the ground late at night. Then a construction worker digging a water line allegedly chanced upon a part of the tunnel.
So on Monday, after Chabad officials reportedly summoned a truck to fill the tunnels with cement, a splinter group of messianic younger Chabad members got verklempt and decided that such an injustice would not — nay, could not — stand.
Of the estimated 15 million or so Jews who currently inhabit this planet, fewer than 100,000 are estimated to be Chabad (pronounced “huh-BAHD”) members. About 25,000 of those live in the United States, and around half of those are tightly clustered in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Despite their small numbers, Chabad, just like the Jews en toto, wields far more influence than their numbers would suggest.
Chabad is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Russia in 1775. The last of Chabad’s group’s dynastic rabbis, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died in Manhattan in 1994, leaving the sect with a leadership gap and all the infighting and optics wars that such power vacuums inevitably create. Schneerson’s voluminous writings and alleged humanitarian work have been recognized by every US president since Richard Nixon. Although I was unable to dig up any pictures of Nixon paying direct homage to Hasidim, I did find a snapshot of Richard and Pat Nixon at a Holocaust Memorial. But I was able to find photos of every subsequent US president — Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Sr., Bill Clinton, George Bush, Jr., Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden — showing public deference to Chabadniks and sundry other Hasidic bigwigs and bigbeards. Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky can be found doing the same.
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Those little scruffy Jews seem to wield otherworldly power over global heads of state.
Rabbi Schneerson was, however indirectly, involved in the Crown Heights race riot, which raged in the Brooklyn neighborhood for three days in August of 1991. The rioting started after an unmarked police escort car had led a three-car motorcade, with one car containing Schneerson, through the Brooklyn streets. The driver of the motorcade’s final car ran a red light to keep up with the others, crashed into another car, careened up onto the sidewalk, and knocked over a stone pillar, which fatally crushed a seven-year-old black boy and severely injured his female cousin. In the ensuing riots, blacks chanted, “Death to Jews!” One group of rampaging neegs stabbed and beat 29-year-old Yankel Rosenbaum to death.
The messianic younger Hasids who caused all the ruckus on Monday are said to believe that Rabbi Schneerson was the Messiah, which makes them heretics in their elders’ eyes. The rowdy young Jews are also said to mostly be transplants from Israel and further afield. They’ve also allegedly been embroiled with the leaders of the synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in endless legal disputes over who actually owns the land there, and it’s been a pain in everyone’s tuchus for years now.
Some have speculated that the elder Chabadniks wanted the tunnels filled with cement to hide evidence of all the satanic baby-raping, human-trafficking, and contraband-hoarding that was going on inside those dark and musty walls.
Others have suggested that synagogue members, cheap Jews that they are, merely carved out those tunnels in defiance of COVID lockdowns and to avoid all the wrangling over permits and property taxes should they have decided to expand their property above ground.
Or maybe the tunnel-diggers were just perverts who wanted to spy on naked Jewish women seeking to purge themselves of the menstrual taint.
Why in Gehenna were those tunnels there? Why did temple authorities seek to fill them with cement? Why did the younger heretical Chabadniks stage such a histrionic hissy-fit against the specter of the tunnels being forever sealed off to them?
My friends, I am not nearly Jewish enough to claim that I know any of the answers to these questions. But they are intriguing questions — I will begrudge you that much.
Even more intriguing to me, though, are the following questions: Why was Schneerson considered so powerful that he was awarded his own police-led motorcade? What is it about Chabad that makes every US president, as well as the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, bow before them like janitors offering supplication to their boss on payday? Such sights perturb me far more than random snapshots of Kabbalistic Jewmanoid Underground Tunnelers.
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23 comments
‘Jewmanoid’. Heh.
You got me about this tunnel thing – but maybe this is how the Morlocks get started evolving?
Make of it what you will, here is a passage from George Lincoln Rockwell’s autobiography, This Time the World (1962):
“Another lady, festooned in ostentatious fur pieces and a crazy hat with a berry at the end of a stalk, arrived in a cab, and insisted on telling me about the ‘Jewish underground.’ I told her I knew about it, and we were fighting it.
” ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘but we have got to dig them out! They’re down there now, GRINDING up the bones and the flesh!’
“She explained to me that the Jews had underground passages running from their “SIN-igogs” and honeycombing the earth everywhere. In these wicked resorts, she explained desperately and passionately, the devils were mashing up people they plucked from society into a poisonous slime which they then put in the food of the rest of us secretly, to ruin our minds!
“This woman was the wife of a one-time US ambassador, believe it or not. I sent her away with as much sympathy as I could muster.”
– This Time The World (chapter 13, page 320 in the standard edition)
Holy hamhocks! I’d forgotten about that one!
“What is it about Chabad that makes every US president, as well as the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, bow before them like janitors offering supplication”
I know you are writing somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and I am zero pct Jewish myself, so I can only speculate, but I do have some ancillary experience from childhood that is somewhat related.
My family lived with an older Jewish couple when I was a little kid, and these are not at all people who I ever saw practice any sort of religious activity or attend temple/church etc.. We literally had Easter egg hunts in their backyard, so they really were not religiously devoted either for or against any particular faith.
When the husband passed away, I went with my mother to a ‘wake’ at a funeral home in Chicago, and there was a man in religious garb (tassels and hasidic-type garb) that was kneeling alongside the coffin. He was sort of chanting or singing something that I could not understand, and I walked up to him (stupid kid) thinking he was a friend of Mr _____ . My mom pulled me away and told me they had hired him in accordance with the will, to carry out this ritual as sort of what Catholics might consider a ‘last right’, and that the ultra-orthodox man did not actually know Mr ______ .
This is the only Jewish funeral service that I have attended (one buddy of mine buried his dad, but they were also not religious and in their case they had no such jewish component to the service) with this sort of ultra-orthodox attendant, but the one thing that I do know is that at least the older generation seems to view the U-O as being especially authoritative on their belief system, and were willing to pay one of their religious figures to spend considerable time (virtually alone) engaging in some sort of mourning ritual.
Everyone has their customs, and it seems to me that even fairly non-religious people within Judaism figure these sects ‘know’ these customs, so I presume that even a non-Rabbi within the more observant sects is viewed as we might view a Deacon or ‘Laity’ within Christianity, so that may give them credentials of some sort.
The guy popping out of the sewer grate was dangerous as hell, since they cut an opening that anyone could have fallen into, so it all leads me to consider that if you have grown accustomed to being allowed to avoid military service while everyone else is conscripted, get paid for reading the Talmud in your own institute, and avoid nearly all education other than religious musings, and are segregated from females, you probably get accustomed to doing things that other people would realize constitute a safety hazard – not the least of which is tunneling to create a Porky’s shower scene redux.
“[A]t least the older generation seems to view the U-O as being especially authoritative on their belief system, and were willing to pay one of their religious figures to spend considerable time (virtually alone) engaging in some sort of mourning ritual.”
When Israel was set up, the atheist/communist Zionists said “Let the old Orthodox grannies run family law, education, and immigration, they deserve a break after running away from Europe, and they’re dying out anyway.” Sort of like the American Right said “Let the Jews take over the arts and universities, who cares?”
“I don’t go to the synagogue, and the synagogue I don’t go to is Orthodox.” — Gen. Moshe Dayan
I saw something akin to this (the funeral you describe) in a movie and then read more about it: they call that mourning prayer kaddish and if said/chanted in public must be done by a minyan which is a group of at least 10 adult jewish men. Something like that and yes they can have to pay the minyan to show up.
I suspect a nothing burger topped with bacon.
The dingy basement space with all the desks didn’t look like it was on the short list for a Home & Design feature story.
The story is evolving quickly. Teenage boys from the lower synagogue started the tunnel themselves a year ago. Realizing it was tough blue collar work, they hired “Mexicans” (!) to live down there and continue the holy quest, which seemed to have destinations in the women’s section on the building and their ‘cleansing bath’. Yet unknown is whether the migrant labor were provided pork tacos on their meal breaks or had any plans to install drywall.
A rumored motivation was a desire to fulfill the decreased Rabbi Schneerson’s pledge to expand the synagogue… and perhaps boobs. Apparently many members of the sect believe Schneerson didn’t die and he is coming back, like Jim Morrison of The Doors, singing “Break on Through To The Other Side”. Various billboards in the USA and Canada, Florida to Toronto, have the image of Schneerson proclaiming the messiah is here. I wonder if there should be a poll for what needs saving other than too much whiteness.
Man, this whole news story is eerily suggestive of that Clive Barker horror short story, “The Midnight Meat Train” about a group of cultists that sacrifice people in secret underground tunnels to the Lovecraftian god of New York City. Life imitates art, I guess.
There was a pretty decent film adaptation of that years ago with Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones. Pretty gruesome and not for the squeamish.
Midnight Meat Train. Bradley Cooper right before stardom. The underused and always welcome Vinnie Jones. Great little flick, wish it had come out in theaters in my area as I prefer the big screen for anything except dramas or documentaries. I watched it at the end of a long night of pre-Netflix dvd rental bingewatching and wine drinking with my then girlfriend. She was too tired or drunk (or scared) to watch it, so I ended up seeing it around 3am by myself. A bit eerie at that hour, half-drunk, half-asleep, imagining lonely subway cars and end of the line tunnels under NYC.
As well as Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook,” which also takes place in Brooklyn. This, along with his other stories and letters written during his “New York period” (“in the pest zone” as he later called it) are often cited by critics as evidence his “racism” was a hysterical and dramatic over-reaction to the comparatively mild amounts of “diversity” in the 1920s, but incidents like this suggest he was, if anything, a prophet.
There is a novella by T.E.D. Klein, “Children of the Kingdom,” about “white boys” (that’s what the kids in the apartment buildings who first see them call them) who are tunneling under the Upper West Side of Manhattan just before the apocalyptic 1977 blackout. Klein implies that the pale humanoid ghouls engineer the blackout to let them expand their territory to other neighborhoods under the cover of complete darkness. Man is it a great horror story!
https://shareduniversereviews.blogspot.com/2016/10/horror-week-2016-children-of-kingdom-by.html
Here we are, only two weeks into the new year, and we already have a strong contender for greatest headline.
Behold! Let it not be said that A.I. image generation is without its benefits. I mean, how else are you gonna find a royalty-free, full color stock photo of O-Js in full Hasidic dress digging a stinky old tunnel? Shutterstock? Flickr? Unsplash? Not bloody likely.
Nah, if you want a full color stock photo of O-Js in full Hasidic dress digging a stinky old tunnel then you’re gonna pay for it, buddy.
But with A.I., we cut out the middleman. Such a deal!
I just watched the subway grate clip. Wasn’t there an old film like that?
https://youtu.be/CSWeQHZrs98?si=cJH5PPw3KixpJ6D_&t=977
It’s amazing how accurate that flick is
Great research, Goad! And that riot at Chabad House was hilarious! Did anyone notice the guy who initially got pulled out of the tunnel and handcuffed dancing and chanting? This is a very strange cultish group, one obviously not even pretending to be part of Western Civilization.
Two things seem easy and obvious:
1. Believe the exact opposite of whatever the media/government tells you to believe.
2. Understand that when people have to dig filthy tunnels underground to conduct their business, there are bloody mattresses and baby strollers strewn about, and coming and going through sewer grates is normal, the activities going on beyond that are bad news.
If it looks like a rat and acts like a rat, it probably is a rat. Not compatible with a healthy society.
I could imagine Jonathan Greenblatt in a conference meeting about how anti-Semitism has skyrocketed following the war in Gaza. Then all the sudden this story breaks out and he does a massive face palm.
I think what is most on the nose about this story is that the tunnel was built largely by migrant labor
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-rabbi-horrified-watching-extremist-students-who-reportedly-hired-migrants-dig-tunnel-under-synagogue
So now this story has a sort of “meme within a meme” or “meta-meme” aspect to it.
I thought the stain on the mattress looked like a fecal stain. I hear that a lot of these yeshivot where Jewish boys study Torah are often rife with homoeroticism. So it may have been a sodomy stain after the Sabbath where the guy on the receiving end had food poisoning from the shul’s cholent.
A classic case where the truth is stranger than fiction. What is also funny is how the Hamas tunnels look very professional compared to the Chabad tunnel.
This greatly enriches the saying, “they do the jobs that ‘Americans’ won’t do.”
Wow, Jim Goad goes straight down the rabbi hole.
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