JTA is reporting Wednesday:
Chabad-Lubavitch leaders have renewed their push to evict the congregational leaders of the Chasidic movement’s main Brooklyn synagogue.
On September 21, leaders of Chabad’s governing bodies issued vacate notices in a bid to force out the congregational leaders, or gabbaim, who effectively run the massive synagogue in the basement of 770 Eastern Parkway, the movement’s world headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood. The notices gave the gabbaim until October 4 to leave.
The notices are the latest salvo in a long-running fight over control of the synagogue, with the two sides battling in court for more than half a decade. In May, the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court reversed on technical grounds a previous court order for the gabbaim to vacate the synagogue.
Over the past decade, the synagogue has been the scene of occasionally violent clashes stemming from the ongoing dispute and religious conflicts.
Under its current gabbaim, the synagogue has been a stronghold of those who aggressively promote the idea that the Lubavitch Chasidic sect’s late rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994, is the messiah.
The recent vacate notices were signed by Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, chairman of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States, and Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.
A New York court ruled in 2006 that the groups led by Krinsky and Shemtov are the synagogue’s rightful owners.
The gaboim to which you refer are no longer around
I saw the eviction papers hanging on the doors of the gaboim. It was signed solely by Rabbi Krinsky.
hopefully I’YH when krinsky/shemtov win their case the Yechi Paroches and signs will be taken down!
aren’t you people embarrassed of yourselves yet? i wish everyone in 770 could see themselves the way that everyone who doens’t live in crown heights could see them. i know other people who bring baal habatim to 770 but i can’t stomach the thought. personally, i don’t think this is the way the rebbe envisioned his shul to be. so much sinas chinum, so much controversy. these types of “politics” make me nauseous and frankly embarassed. a shul is a place where people come together to davend to hashem, whats with these ridiculous power struggles? i dont know but i… Read more »
Thank you yechiel for the great recap
Quick historical recap: – Vaad Hakohol made elections for Gaboyim, the Rebbe did not approve, new Gaboyim were canceled (Chadokov gave word over from the Rebbe that 770 is not a CH shul, it is Lubavitch). – After 4 Tammuz the Messianist decide that they do not need to listen to the Rebbe anymore and forcibly evict the Rebbe’s Gaboyim. – Merkos/Aguch call these new false Gaboyim to The Lubavitch Beis Din, they [the falase gaboyim] refuse to come, they only want to go to the Beis Din that the Rebbe instructed has no jurisdiction over Lubavitch issues (badatz of… Read more »
#8 et al.. before you spout your venom why dont you educate yourself on the “truth” of the matter.
if the Gaboyim would had not gone to court in the 1st place we would have not had this now. thats the fact THE GABOYIM STARTED THIS WHOLE MESS
It;s time to throw the nuts out and restore the legacy of the rebbe [obm].
Guys lets keep it Leshem Shomayim!
Please!
Bs”D Utzu eitza v’sufar, dabru davar v’lo yokum, ki imanu keil. Hashem is with the Chasidim. The “establishment” needs to be careful and not hurt the Rebbe’s Chasidim in any way. We are all flesh and blood and we don’t take anything to the grave, except our Mitzvos – and we all know in our hearts what and who we are. Still time for Teshuva. G’mar Chasima Tova.
About time I have not walked into 770 since they took over. G-D willing they will leave without issues and 770 can be repaired properly.
most people who daven downstairs are NOT flag waving crazies
I just spent last Shabbos in 770. I am an out of towner. I could not get over the hefkkeres and bizyoinos which take place in Bais Chayenu! I kept asking myself : How can all the Mazkirim and Aguch allow this? Where is the mesirus nefesh for the Rebbes kavod??? What does the younger generation who did not have the zchus to have seen 770 with the Rebbes presence view the kedusha of 770?? I saw the shvil that the Zfatis made and in the back Rav L Groner was standing. Nobody even paid any attention to him. He… Read more »