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NY POST Features Front Page Story on Gaboim Eviction

HACK JOURNALISM: In a rambling and blabbering article on the NYPost’s homepage this morning, they featured a story on the eviction of the Gaboim from 770, only their article makes no sense, and leaves readers with many curious questions.

It is obvious who instigated this article – on the eve of Rosh Hashana no less – with quotes being featured from the lawyer for the Gaboim – Mr. Edward Rudofsky, as well as from Eli Cohen and Yankel Shpritzer – both major activists from the fringe/extremist Mishechist faction who are desperately trying to hold on to 770.

Earlier last week, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky for Merkos Linyonei Chinuch and Rabbi Avraham Shemtov for Agudas Chasidei Chabad signed papers ordering the eviction of ‘Cong. Lubavitch Inc.’ – a fictional corporation created by the Gaboim – along with the body of Gaboim themselves.

The motion filed by Merkos to have these two bodies evicted from 770 was part of the last lawsuit – which was struck down on technical grounds. In the courts order it noted that Merkos attempted to save some time and money, but it still needs to be done properly and filed separately.

The article incorrectly states that Rabbi Krinsky alone is trying to evict that entire congregation, a falsehood perpetrated by the Gaboim themselves when they created confusion with their fictional corporation, aptly named for the occasion – ‘Congregation Lubavitch Incorporated,’ and played the misinformation for the reporters who did not properly research the story.

Who is responsible for this epic Chillul Lubavich? Is it Merkos for doing their job? Or is it a group of Mishechist extremists who are willing to do anything to further their own cause – even try and fight their case out in the secular media?

See the article for yourself:

It’s a bum’s ‘Rosh’
Rabbi evict furor

By REBECCA ROSENBERG and DAREH GREGORIAN
Posted: 12:58 AM, September 27, 2011

Bah, chumbug.

A powerful rabbi is acting like the Grinch who stole Yom Kippur — slapping the congregation of Lubavitch World Headquarters with an eviction notice right before the high holy days.

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, served the Brooklyn congregation’s board of governors with a notice giving them 10 days to clear out of 770 Eastern Parkway on Friday, hours before the Sabbath and less than a week before Rosh Hashanah, which begins tomorrow night.

“For them to initiate a secular court action on the eve of the new year, to have the people vacate the premises, you’re talking about thousands of people coming from all over the world, to have them vacate the premise several days before the day of atonement is beyond comprehension,” said Crown Heights business owner and longtime congregant Yaakov Spritzer, 63.

Krinsky, essentially the de facto owner of the massive synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway, has been feuding with its board of governors for years.

The board, called the Gabboim, believe Krinsky’s late mentor, Grand Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, is the Messiah, and it has blocked Krinsky from putting up a plaque in Schneerson’s memory because they don’t consider him dead.

They’ve also blocked Krinsky — who was Scheerson’s aide until his death in 1994 and named the sole executor of his will — from speaking at the synagogue.

Krinsky has countered by trying to boot the board in an apparent bid to seize more control for himself and the other rabbi Schneerson left in a position of power, Avraham Shemtov.

An earlier attempt to toss the board from the building was dismissed on technical grounds by a state appeals court this past March.

Eli Cohen, 56, the executive director of the Jewish Community Council, said Krinsky should have taken his case to a Jewish tribunal known as the Beth Din.

“The secular court is not the place to litigate issues of religion,” Cohen said.

Edward Rudofsky, the lawyer for the congregation and the Gabboim, said, “I am actively consulting with the clients at this point to decide how they want to proceed and respond.”

Krinsky’s lawyer and spokesman declined comment on the dispute.

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40 Comments

  • it has come to this

    Wow! It has come to this. The men who mastered the court system to kill and destroy others, are now crying bais din.

    Who ever thought this day would come.

    Shpritzer and Cohen call it what you want, the “high holidays” are worth nothing to you. It does not forgive between two people.

  • ganavim

    Eli, how much money are we talking about?

    Yankle, don’t you have enough ways to already launder your gnaivos?

  • Sara

    Shame on Eli Cohen and Yankel Shpritzer! Who cares what side they are on, but to take their machlokes to the public media a few days before RH?

  • Chaim Tovim

    Awesome move!! Maybe some sanity will finally be restored to 770 and kavod back to the Rebbe’s shul

  • reader

    Here they go again, meshichistim at their worst, creating a chilul Hashem, desecrating the Rebbe’s name to further their madness. Kudos to Rabbi Krinsky and Rabbi Shemtov. Mispallelim want 770 back.

  • So Who is the Uneducated DAREH GREGORIAN

    i cant belive this DAREH GREGORIAN
    is ….a New York Post court reporter, Dareh is in tune with what makes the city tick.
    Realy a court Reporter ?
    know NOTHING about the law or Court Documents.
    but what was his best story ???

    “So what does Dareh think about the Mayor? ”An interesting guy,“ he says after a pause and a smile, ”He was in one of the most bizarre stories I’ve done. He came down to serve as a juror in a civil case and it happened to be a guy suing the city for having his privates scalded in the shower when the water temperature changed inexplicably. So the sight of having the Mayor of New York City sitting in the jury box while someone is passing around a picture of his privates was a very New York moment.”

    Mr. DAREH GREGORIAN
    Go write about some privates
    OH Sorry

    I Think You did
    didn’t YOU Write about Yankel The GANEV Spritzer And Eli Chohen CFO (chif FRAUD Officer) at CHJCC

  • interesting...

    the ny post is right wing conservative, very supportive of israel, hates democrats etc curious why they ran this non story and the more liberal daily news did not….

  • Shmuel

    Hello! Let’s talk about this.

    First of all, this article is a huge chillul hashem – and I know somebody going to say, “Krinsky started it by going to court”… well, when the bais din wields no power to control the offending party you have to go to a real court!

    Sencondly, Krinsky doesn’t grab power and he doesn’t do so on behalf of “and the other rabbi, Shemtov,” with whom he has had a shaky relationship with for years already!

    Thirdly, even as the Post makes the current occupants of 770 sound so completely insane, they still side with them against the “de facto owner” which by the way means “Legal owner” and paint him as the vilian because he was finally able to procure a court order that he has been fighting for for years so that the Rosh Hashanah devening in 770 could be properly regulated. (By the way, it’s uncanny how they find pictures to make him look so good when is rabbi of the year and so conniving in this article.)

    Fourthly, anyone who is truly G-d fearing should side with Machane Israel and Merkos Linyonei Chinuch in this bid to gain control over 770, so that they, who have the will to act, will finally have the ability to move all violent and disruptive people out so that every lubavitcher could feel safe to daven and learn in the rebbe’s shul. (And I don’t mean people who talk during davening, I mean those who disturb the peace.)

    If you dissagree with any of these points please comment respectfully and in clear english. If you are filled with bile and hatred go ahead and call me all sorts of wonderful things.

    KVC”T

  • Sam

    “Or is it a group of Mishechist extremists who are willing to do anything to further their own cause, even try and fight their case out in the secular media?”

    Ye right… because a court reporter needs “Mishechist extremists” to tip her off on public documents filed in court.

  • Hilarious!!!

    “Who is responsible for this epic Chillul Lubavich? Is it Merkos for doing their job? Or is it a group of Mishechist extremists who are willing to do anything to further their own cause, even try and fight their case out in the secular media?”

    Great set of options.

    Thats like asking – what do you think of Obama’s job Performance? Is he doing a great Job? Or is he doing very well under tough circumstances?

  • to interesting

    that is the stupidest thing I’ve heard. The post MAY be right of center, which I would disagree with that assertion (yes I know that the Post is owned by Newscorp, Foxnews parent company), but they have thousands of left of center articles as well, annually. They have plenty liberal writers on staff as well as their conservative ones. Even “conservative” sites like Newsmax, I occasionally find some left of center spin.

  • Are we better?

    Anybody think this is over? There are plenty more embarassing days ahead. Fights, police are coming soon.
    Nothing will end until both sides realize how rediculous this makes CH Jews look. It shows the world we are no better then the feuding arabs that can not bring themselves to compromize for the benefit of their children and themselves.

  • mendel

    Its time to return 770 to its rightful owners, the people our rebbe zy’a, put in his tzavo, yudel krinsky and avremel shemtov. There’s a reason why there are now 51 ka’h shuls in crown heights, its not just b/c “there’s not enough room” in 770, its because it has been hijacked by left-wing extremists, time to restore its glory and let chasidim feel welcome again. ksiva vachasima taiva :)

  • nypost = antisemites!!!

    this is the second blatantly misinformed and antisemitic string of lies the nypost has published in two days! who edits this paper? is there no journalistic integrity left? i appreciate their zeal for a juicy scoop, but that should be done within confines of the truth.

    **sunday they were hired to slander kirshenbaum**

    **tuesday they feature the above misinformed attack on krinsky and co**

    what is the nypost’s motivation in dragging lubavitchers through the mud? when will someone make a public stink about their blatant anti-semitic motives in profiting over jewish libels.

  • antimeshichist = antimesira

    Not all Meshichistim are Mossrim, but all Mossrim are Meshichistim!

    …For NOT ONLY ONE has risen up against us to annihilate us, but in every generation THEY rise up against us to annihilate us,
    Mishichistim: A Movement of Mosrim

    At a recent trip to Israel I had the opportunity to meet up with my extended family at a family Simcha (Uncles, Ants, Cousins and second cousins). We had all come to spend a Shabbos together to celebrate my niece’s Bat-Mitzva.

    It turns out I have a cousin who was “learning” in Tzfat “Yeshiva” (a.k.a the Mishichist Yeshiva). This year was his second year at this institution.

    He was aware that I was one of the Shomrim Six and related the following to me.

    He said that while we sat on trial, the Mishichist Bochrim were all excited, he said that for six weeks (the course of the trial), the Yeshiva was alive. Everyday the Bochrim would get an update as to the proceedings of that day in court. The discussions in the study hall, dining room and dorm rooms were all about the trial.

    For six weeks everyday “his friends” would tell him with a smile from ear to ear, “your cousins are going to jail”, “your cousins are screwed” etc…

    I asked my cousin if this was just a few guys or the Yeshiva at large and to this the reply was the Yeshiva at large.

    I then asked how was the reaction after the not guilty verdict?

    “They were all down and depressed, they couldn’t look me in the eyes, and this was a big hit for them” my cousin said.

    I have a brother in-law who is in Tzfat “Yeshiva” as well. I wanted to confirm that the above was indeed true and so Motzi Shabbos when I returned to my in-laws I asked my brother in-law about how it was when we sat on trial, he said the same exact thing as my cousin, only they told him that “his brother in-law is going to jail”, his brother in-law was screwed”.

    The Shomrim Six Mesira was not a Mesira of a few Mishichistim, the whole Mishichist movement was involved, and they were all excited, praying that the Shomrim Six be found guilty and imprisoned for 15 plus years.

    When we came aware that we are actually going to go to trial, we did everything we possibly can to stop it.
    We reached out to Meshichitim “Mashpiyim”, Meshichistim Supporters (those doing money laundering business with Mendel Hendel), to no avail. We even offered one meshichist “Shliach” a brand new Safor Torah if he would get involed to stop the Mesira. The Meshichist “Shliach” not only refused to help, he justified Six Jews going to jail for 15 plus years. Six Jews he never met, six Jews with families and jobs, plain and and simple six Jews.

    They will all pay the price. Jewish blood is not cheap!

  • Whoisspritzer

    Yaakov Spritzer: The Ganev and Mosser Yaakov Spritzer.
    The same Yaakov Spritzer who introduced the court system to Crown Heights.

    Read More About Who Yaakov Spritzer is Here:
    http://machanemenachem.file…

    Short Version of Judge Glasser Final Verdict Against Yaakov Spritzer

    On May 6, 1997, the plaintiffs, a not-for-profit Corporation and Yaakov Spritzer, filed a complaint against seven named defendants consisting of 167 paragraphs extending over 50 pages and asserting eleven claims as follows: I) RICO, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1962(b); II) RICO, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d); III) RICO, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c); IV) RICO, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d); V) Tortuous Interference with Contractual Relations; VI) Fraud; VII) Conversion; VIII) Unfair Competition; IX) Breach of Fiduciary Duty; X) Assault; XI) Intentional damages to property. To characterize the complaint as prolix, replete with hearsay and irrelevancies, would be charitable.

    Plaintiff Spritzer was then called as a witness.
    His testimony is revealing in several respects. A careful and critical reading of it corroborated in eloquent detail the testimony of Shmuel and Mendel to the effect that Spritzer arrogated to himself the management of the Corporation. His direct testimony is consistent with the testimony of the prior three defendants…

    Most revealing, if not disturbing, was the testimony elicited from Spritzer upon cross- examination,….

    A careful examination of the returns for the years 1996-1998 give rise to questions to which answers that were less than satisfactory were offered by Spritzer.

    As has already been indicated, the proceeding was stayed from the conclusion of the testimony on October 31st, 2001, until May 13th, 2002, when the stay required by the filing of the bankruptcy petition was lifted and the direct testimony of Spritzer was resumed.

    Returning to the “Miscellaneous Statements”…

    On Schedule D, Spritzer is listed as a secured creditor in the amount of $1,131,675, which is $131,675 in excess of the mortgage he holds for one million dollars and he surmised that the excess must be an unsecured loan. One can’t help but conclude upon reading his testimony about the schedules submitted to the Bankruptcy Court that the information they contain is of questionable accuracy and the record of monies received and monies disbursed represent a haphazard hodgepodge of speculation.

    The conclusion that is compelled by his testimony is that the affairs of the Corporation were conducted by Spritzer as though it was his personal fiefdom with occasional allusions to board approval at meetings which are nowhere documented and by resolutions which were adopted and action taken only because Spritzer divines that they were.

    The vigorous assertion by Spritzer that Goldman, Heber and Mendel breached a fiduciary duty they owed Machne Menachem by a fleeting involvement in Ohr Menachem upon which they embarked to provide a summer camp experience for some children of Crown Heights who would not otherwise have had it pales into insignificance when compared with the total disregard for the obligation of a director with which this record of self-dealing and financial legerdemain reeks.
    Throughout his testimony, Spritzer asserted that meetings were held by him and Schreiber or by him, Schreiber and Spalter, at which corporate action was approved and yet neither Schreiber nor Spalter were called by him in support of those assertions.

    The summary of the testimony as discussed above would be correctly interpreted by the reader as conveying an unequivocal skepticism of Spritzer’s testimony regarding prior approval and authorization of his virtually unilateral action on behalf of the camp and the Corporation.

    I have previously alluded to the comparative breaches of fiduciary duty by Spritzer which, at the very least, makes his airing of them noisome.

    The evidence established convincingly for this Court that what is alleged to be their abandonment was, instead, what I have analogized to be their constructive eviction by Spritzer.

    The foregoing findings of fact drive the Court to conclude that Joseph Goldman, Mendel Hershkop and Shmuel Heber are still, as a matter of law, directors of Machne Menachem, Inc.

    The foregoing constitutes the Court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law. The Court has considered the arguments advanced in the brief of the plaintiff Corporation which requires no discussion by the Court in addition to what has been written and which, the Court, in any event, finds unpersuasive.

  • why????

    Why would any Jewish website post such an article that is clearly meant for hate-mongering Erev Rosh Hashana?
    KVCT

  • don-t be scammed

    The fact is When and if rabbi Krinsky takes over
    get ready to pay $1,000’s of dollars for you seats on rosh hashana and yom kippur. This time if you dont’t pay the full amount goodbye seat. When will everyone wake up we got scammed with the rebuilding of 770 and got a million dollar bathroom. And yes we donated the $770 towards the shul and were is the wall with all the names?

  • chaim36

    It;s about time that sanity will prevail. The messianic cult has caused a worldwide chilul hashem to the glory of the goyim.

  • Post lost my business

    I’ve read the Post for a long time. I always defended it it from people who mocked its reporting. Now I see what they are talking about. This is ridiculous.

  • Milhouse

    “It’s about time the meshichist freaks were evicted. Not soon enough.”

    Not so fast. No individual is being evicted, let alone a whole tzibbur. The eviction is aimed only at a corporation (by whatever name it chooses to call itself this week) that went to court with a false claim that it owns the building, or has some right to control the building. Merkos’s action is not aimed at “meshichisten” or “tzfatim” or “extremists”; its ONLY purpose is to defend the Rebbe’s property from outright theft. Remember, none of this would have happened had the gabo’im not chosen to go into court and lie their faces off that they and not Aguch/Merkos own the building. Nobody summoned them to court; they intervened of their own accord into a case that had nothing to do with them.

  • Cleanliness is next to G-dliness

    A move that is way overdue. Clean the place out completely!

    Tell the “gabbis” to take out all their “yechi” signs with them or put them right in the garbage.

    Cleanliness is next to G-dliness.

  • Get the Vote!

    All Krinsky has to do is to do something good for our community and get on good terms and then maybe in the next election he will have a better chance to win.

    Until then I see nothing happening other then one Chilul Hashem after the other….

  • # 19 recycled propaganda and hate

    To 19:

    On what bases do you base your comment?

    What leads you to conclude what you concluded?

    Please give evidence to back your claims.

  • finally....

    bravo to krinsky finally putting a stop to these extremist who r constantly making problems

  • chaim

    Spritzer wants a din torah !!

    1- Spritzer had a Din Torah with D. Kahanov, the Bais Din ordered Spritzer to pay. Did he pay? No

    2- Spritzer had a Din Torah with S. Horowitz, the Bais Din ordered Spritzer to pay. Did he pay? No

    3-Spritzer was ordered by the Bais Din not to take his sister to court, Did he take his sister to court? Yes

    4- Spritzer took 4 families to court charging them with Rico acts. Did he have permission from the Bais Din? No

  • Number 19

    To number 19 :

    Your comment is contradictory.

    Please tell us all, who did take down the wall of names that we paid $ 770 ?

    Was it Krinsky or the current management ?

  • disgusting

    This is horrible…get shpritzer out of 770. He is destroying chabad and making us look like a bunch of lunatics. His so called congregants turn 770 into a dump. When my family (mot lubavitch)come to visit me I am embarrassed to take them there. It shouldn’t be like this. Such a shame to air dirty laundry like this.

  • to # 19

    you are a child who obviously knows nothing except to hate krinsky and co
    you obviosuly as well did not pay the $770 because then you would know the names were put up but were taken down and thrown out by the yechi people

  • stam

    to 22 the link that was written before (17) lists sporadic people that are individually are evicted

  • cher

    i nothing about politics. But now i know eli cohen is a bali machlokes. who appointed him the rosh of chjcc? cant they get someone a little more inteligent/presentable???

  • Kay

    Just goes to show that the NY Post has the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer. Reputable newspapers have something called “fact-checking,” which clearly did not happen here.

    Shame on you, NY Post.

  • sickening

    Wow. The comments on here really make it very clear to me which side is full of hate. I only wish (almost) all the commentore here a refuah shelaima and a gut bebentched yohr.

  • Eli

    Its pretty funny that the article mention that it’s just before the holiday, I actually think it’s after the holidays, and many of them we’ve been through 17 holidays since those nonsense animals took over, let it be the first cleaned up holiday.
    Thank you Rabbi Krinsky keep the pressure on don’t let go until the last one is out
    Make 770 look holy again and like a stadium.
    A KSVT

  • antimesira

    To 24:

    You want to see hate? You won’t see it in a few comments.

    You really really wanted to see hate, you should have came to 320 Jay street, where the Shomrim Six stud trial for six weeks.

    320 Jay street, where 7 Meshichist Mossrim testified against Jews.

    When (some of) those Mossrim got engaged to marry, where do you thing they got their Aliya (to the Torah), the Shabbos before their wedding day? They got it downstairs in 770, they got it from the current Gaboyim.

    Those who justify Mesira are part of the problem.

    I love how Liberals (in our case Meshichistim) label any other opinion as hate. This is an old tactic to silence the opposition.

    Did you know that for many (liberals) the very fact that your against gay marriage – for example- your a hateful person?

    Now you know.