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Tsfatis Vandalize, Destory Bochurs Belongings

As thousands gathered at the Great Parade in Crown Heights, a group of thugs and terrorists had more important business to attend to – breaking into and vandalizing a dormitory room at 1414, completely destroying one students belongings.

The incident occurred on Sunday morning at around 11:00am inside 1414 President Street – the primary dormitory which is run and managed by the Hanhalah of the Kvutzeh.

A group of Bochurim broke into one of the rooms, damaging the door then proceeded to spray paint and cut up all of the Bochurs clothing – including his shoes, shirts, hats and suits. The damage was estimated by the victim to reach well over $2000.

Sources and witnesses have identified the perpetrators as Levi Halperin, Yisrael Lentchner and Gershovitz, all students in the Yeshiva of 770 (Kvutzeh), all of whom have a rich history in vandalism and terrorism. The Hanhala of the Yeshiva has repeatedly failed to take any action against the vandals.

This latest attack follows a lengthy campaign of intimidation and violence against this student, who drew the ire of the gang after they accused him of bringing to light their previous plots.

Police were called to the scene and have begun an investigation into the crime. A crime scene crew lifted finger prints in an effort to properly identify the perpetrators and make an arrest. The victim approached the dorm manager Sholom Ber Brod and asked for the surveillance video to help his case, but as of publication time has refused to turn it over.

One of the vandals was recently arrested for a violent attack on a 770 cleaner, and has also been identified as the ringleader in last years brutal attack on a helpless beggar in 770, leaving the homeless man hospitalized for weeks.

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Crime Scene police officer taking fingerprint from the vandalized room.
Gershovitz
Gershovitz
Levi Yitzchak Halperin
Levi Yitzchak Halperin

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76 Comments

  • makes me sick

    While terrorists are stabbing and murdering jews in israel, makes me sick that our own people could be doing such hateful things themselves. Turn over the tape and toss the thugs in jail.

  • Sooooooo

    Why the profiling? These people that did this clearly need help no need to call them terrorists.

  • Bella

    I feel sorry for the Bochur who’s things were destroyed.

    Why hide and allow these delinquents to continue behaving this way and hurting people? They need to learn a lesson!!

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Its all about the money.

    The yeshiva does “business” with meshichsit leader Menachem Mendel Hendel.

    The yeshiva sells visas to Hendel and this is how he brings his thugs here. We need to stop this corruption with the visas.

    The Hechts (who run and operated ‘The Great Parade’) also do “business” with Hendel. The “business” is the only reason they let him say ‘yechi’ at the parade.

    Remember Three years ago when Hendel stormed the stage at the parade and created a great chillul hashem? Well, a day later one of the Hecht brother were having a lively friendly chat on in the middle of Eastern Pkwy, outside the Hects mossod.

    Its always about the money.

  • confused

    Im so confused… isnt there so many other issues with blacks, shootings, crashes, sicknesses etc and now our very own pple do such a thing… I do not get it

  • Someone who cares

    If you care about the situation and want to do something about it, call up members of the Hanhala and protest their failure to take action.

    Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi – 347 776 0279
    Rabbi Gedaliah Bluming – 347 451 5980

  • Someone who cares

    Rabbi Kuti Feldman – 347 277 8573
    Rabbi Zalman Labkovsky – 718 774 4812

  • hecht caved in

    thats why hecht caved in at the lag bomer parade they are all scared of these thugs

    • Anonymous

      Do u want the parade to be a big fist fi
      ght? Why dont u go and protect the stage from these Huligans. Show ur face and ur support against the Hendel guy

  • disappointed & ticked off!

    1.Do not call these animals Bochurim Tzfatis etc. It is an insult to the majority of those who ate not involved & are Emesdike actual bachurim etc. If the Hanhola namely Zarchi or anyone refuses to do something & continues to protect them.Take tjem To din TorTorah whether it means going to Schwei or the Vaad Rabbonei Chabad do what is necessary to deport these animals fire Zarchi etc. It must be made clear that this nor anytype of nonsense will not be tolerated.Unfortunately because of them the police need to be involved & remain involved.Unless& until people start opening a mouth getting involved nothing will happen except more Chilul hadhem & shem Lubavitch etc.

  • Crown Heights er

    Sent one or two of them home and you will see how the rest of them behave like good little boys.
    The hanhala is responsible. Police should be called and arrests should be made

  • Remember The Theme of Lag B'Omer

    Heenay Mah Tov U Mah Noim Sheves Achim Gam Yachad Halevai!!!!

  • Hellooooo!

    Send them home? thats too good for these so called bochurim. Get the hanhala involved?? to do what exactly??
    Get the POLICE involved. Send these guys to prison. Just because they are Yidden and vandalized another Yids belongings does not make their actions any less of a crime, yes a crime!

  • Cant believe it

    The worst thing is when good people sit idle with all this terrorism happening. When will the hanholo finally take some action istead of just sitting there and let those Jihadists do whatever they want

  • Yochanan Gordon

    These guys have a deranged look to them.
    I think the hanhala has given up hope or at least
    I’m kind if hoping that’s the case. It’s about time legal
    Action is taken on these schmucks and get them the h–l out of CH. they are no good and do not deserve to be treated as humans. I’ve said it before in more public fashion but there’s no doubt in my mind that they are reincarnated from the mixed multitude.

  • prison

    Hoping that the guilty guys get arrested and sit. How is it that they keep getting away with violence and thievery? I saw some of these Tzfatis STEALING in a store in Boro Park- sliding items into their jacket pockets and whistling as they sauntered out of the store. A whole group of them. I was so taken aback and did not react at the time. Its sickening. Sick. And their only other concern in life is shoving Yechi on others. They dont give a damn for the Rebbe and Moshiach, or they would not behave like this. But part of their cult culture is the obsessive beliefs of Yechi.

  • CALL THE INS

    someone should call the INS department and have these low life’s deported they are all here probably with a non valid visa

  • caved in?

    i dont think hecht had a choice- these yechi monsters definitely left a bad taste in many mouths there…

  • shmuli

    i dont think its necsessary to post their pictures…

    no one will be in danger if he dosent know what they look like..

    • Inda Know

      Quite the contrary. Now I’ll know who to watch out for when in 770, on Kingston, etc. Thanks CrownHeights.Info!

    • grateful for the pictures

      Now I know that if I see any of those faces to get the heck out of dodge. These are dangerous individuals.

  • abcdefg

    are tzfatis jewish? I would for sure not have them for shabbos, they are really unstable. They either have Borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder, or they are psychotic sociopathes. How disturbing that we have young people with such disorders. Who is not watching these bocherim if they have taught them Torah. NEBACH, OY VEY that they learned Torah but do not conduct themselves in a Jewish way. How can this be. They think that Torah way accepts this?? They cannot understand, they are not well. What can be done, someone must take responsibility. If I was still teaching, I would think about how to reach them.

  • make them pay

    the creeps should be forced to pay for the damage. If they don’t have money their parents should pay. If it was my son who did this i’d be so ashamed I raised a lowlife.

    Deport them. After they are arrested and thrown in Rikers with Bubba.

  • Sdom - Brod is making VICTIM pay for damages

    Sholom Ber Brod has notified the victim that HE must pay for the damages because it was his room that was damaged. This is mamash Sdom! STOP THE MADNESS!! Get rid of Brod!

    • Are you serious???

      Because you are the victim and know this? Or you are just making this up because you like Loshon Horah?

      willing to bet all the money in the world that brod is not making that Bochur pay!!!

    • Confirmed - Brod threatened to evict victim if he does not pay NOW!

      This is a fact – confirmed. HOW LOW CAN BROD GO???

    • Sholem Ber Brod is forcing victim to pay for damages to room

      Brod has unlimited power over bochurim in the 1414 1418 buildings. There is NO ONE a bochur can speak to appeal Brod’s dictator decrees. If a bochur does not comply with Brod, he gets booted out, almost instantly. This nebech bochur who is a VICTIM must now pay an INFLATED price to fix the damages to his room caused by the hoodlums from Tzfat. In Sdom they would make Brod “Man of the Year”.

  • Get them areated

    CH under attack
    They should get arrested
    Bcs it’s a Jew so we have to suffer ?? Jews are not allow to behave like this and must lock in
    And the Freinds will learn the lesson

    It’s the only way

    Make it a seriouse case and not that sperline gona bail him out after a day

  • Meshichist looneys

    This is what all you meshichistim have created.
    You’ve created your own monster. Speak up against All this cult like behavior. That includes Getting answers from the Igros, saying Yechi etc. Stop this perversion of Chabad.
    This is what it leads to. This is not our mesora & never was. This is what it has led to.

  • Rabbi Zarchi

    We tried to send them home but Syria would
    Not take them back.

  • Donate to the bochur?

    Any way we can help the bochur replace his belongings? Poor guy

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Find the enemy and fight them wherever they are.

    Be like sharks that smell blood in the water because, we don’t win playing defense. We win on offense.

  • MENDY

    I will a band of brothers should get together and sponsor the 2000 for the clothes. im willing to give 500.00

    It will bother them more when they see his new clothes!

    I also thing hanhala should be more involved and these guys need to be removed from this town which will send a message.

    A caring brother ….

  • Rabbi Wilshansky from Zfat

    Leave my boys alone!

    They are just following orders.

    • Are you serious???

      1. Yes I’m sure rabbi wilshansky told them to do this it’s all part of his master plan to take over crown heights and rule it with an iron hand!!! (End sarcasm)

      2. These Bochurim come from Migdal and other extreme Yeshivos and not Tzfas… (which so happens to be the biggest lubavitcher Yeshivah in the world)

      3. Oh and just so you know Rabbi Wilshansky doesn’t even wear a Yechi Yarmulka or a flag… and is the last person on earth that would endorse violence…

  • equalizer

    they learn this behavior from the rabonnim themselves,what is being done to rabbi osdoba by the other two is the exact same thing,hooligans .

  • stam yid

    are you people for real?

    What does Yechi, Igrois etc. have to do with a couple of bochurim committing (allegedly) a crime? Should we then say that every time an “Detreyt” bochur is caught doing things unbecoming a tomim that this is a result of the recent zy’a obsession and k’fira’dike “doir hashmini” mishugas?? Do you live in a fantasy world of some sort? Don’t you realize that when you spew your hate against these inyonim and the emuna of Chassidim you are putting yourself against not just some “tzfatim” but also, let’s see:
    R’ Dunin, R’ Gurary, R’ Futerfas, R’ Marlow, R’ Butman, R’ Gorelik… and **hundreds** of other great Chassidim, shluchim, mekushorim, rabbonim, dayonim, talmidei chachomim, roshei kehilois, roshei yeshivois, v’chu v’chu who both say Yechi and write to the Rebbe MH”M through Igrois (and encourage others to do the same). Who are *you* to raise a foot or a hand against such people? Is it Chabad mesorah for someone to belittle both scholarship and emuna of people much (much) greater than himself?!
    Address the issue at hand – don’t use it a springboard for more sinas chinom. The issue here is: Vandalizing a bochur’s property – that’s it. In other words – hooliganism. Not “terrorism”- look up the definition of the term, please. Posting “yellow journalism” articles like this one (and many others on this site) – is also hooliganism.

  • CH

    the Rebbe spoke that Bochurim who :yadaim yidei esav” must go home. period. the Rebbe told Dovid Raskin A”H

  • SHALIACH BUFFALO NY

    What is going on? This one small group is wreaking so much havoc in 770 that it’s hard to imagine… The good chassidim are outnumbering these 3 boys. Cannot a large group of rabbinicals pick them up and throw them out in full view of the Police?

  • ardi

    the community needs to be educated on Mental Health issues. This is a new zman, and now people are becoming informed about what is a mental health issue and what is not. Time for Chabads to get more savvy about it, since we are so savvy about alot of other things.

  • ardi #2

    and besides all of what most people said, I mean, how do you just pass this off as a “different point of view”??? Like, here I am imagining myself making a shidduch for such a bochur:
    he learned here in Crown Hts, he worked with other safati’s to ransack another bochur’s 1414 room,
    etc. etc etc.
    I mean, lets just look at this pragmatically.

  • Anonymous

    Wow I am utterly shocked, although i probably shouldnt be, at the spewing of hate from these comments.. Did these bochurim do something wrong? Yes 100% Should they be punished? again yes, but are these boys terrorists? non jews? animals? because of something bad that they did? Honestly Im surprised that this article was published using those words against fellow yidden. We see what terrorists do- They MURDER people and themselves and are happy to do so. These bochurim REALLY? Im just so amazed at what people will say about others just because of what ‘political’ stance they take, not even focused on what they did-just who they are. Dont get me wrong im not standing up for what they did, i just think people have to take a look at themselves especially during this time and watch what comes out of our mouths!

  • to #46

    Do you even know Rabbi Wilchansky????????????????
    Rabbi Wilschansky is NOT a violent man in any way.
    Don’t mix your views on topics with promoting violence.
    You should ask Mechila from him.
    It’s a terrible thing you said.

  • to #35, #39

    please think before you speak
    words can be a reflection of what YOU ARE INSIDE

    • Sholem Ber Brod is the one who needs to be shipped out

      Brod supports the terrorist. He hounds the normal bochurim who want to learn and be left alone. Brod has zero accountability. Making the poor victim bochur suffer further by demanding payment for the damages is a shanda. Brod is treatening to evict the victim if he doesn’t come up with money to fix the damages caused by the terrorist. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

  • to 56.

    Please don’t get involved by being MUSSAR B’MUSSARDIK… if the boys are guilty, and if they have truly behaved like terrorists, they should get the whole brunt of the justice system, meaning jailtime. Period. We have had enough of fooling around these wicked animals, these low scum beasts of Kingston Avenue.

  • to 55

    has the jerk ever condemned the works of his retarded students publicly???? ever????

  • Sholom Dovber

    we are leaderless, this is the crux of the issue.
    The Rebbe zy”a would never have tolerated violence.
    The Hanholo would have been instructed to take\e action immediately.
    Moshiach Now!

  • Tzachi Cohen - Remember me?

    My comrades and I are acting in accordance with the education we received:
    Moshiach is on his way, let’s welcome him with acts of violence and terrorism.

    • are you crazy

      what????????? that is the exact opposite of what you should do there is nothing wrong with tzfatis but terrorist tzfatis are literally the reason moshiach isn’t here

  • Surprised?

    Everyone is up in arms when a reform rabbi criticizes Chabad – and yet we let this what we see here above continue over and over ………..

  • send them home!!!

    I think the hanhala should send them home right away before any other damage

  • SUCH IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!

    WHO WOULD EVER DO SUCH A THING TO SOMEONE ????, ESPECIALLY A BOCHOR???? I THINK YOU SHOULD PUT ALL THE TZFATIM IN JAIL FOR THERE REST OF THERE LIFE!!! OR SEND THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE!! EVERY ONCE A WHILE, THERE ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING ELSE!! ITS TOTALLY RETARDED!!!! MOSHIACH NOW!!!

  • Dear 65 - Tzachi Cohen

    Oh how ignorant you are , not too long ago I went to mikvah, said Yechi 3 times, and opened Igros, and my Mashpia explained that’s what the Rebbe wanted us to do in Dor Hashviei. you see now that the Rebbe Mhm Shlita, isn’t visible to everyone, we can go to letters he wrote to people over 30 years ago and understand from that new life styles!!!!!!!!
    The Rebbe I speak of is obviously not your Rebbe being that you aren’t even a lubavitcher if you think different than my christian like beliefs.

    יתמו חוטאים

  • OY GEVALD!!

    I don’t know what’s more upsetting, the fact that something this awful could happen to a yid from yidden, or that NO action has taken place.

    STEP UP AUTHORITIES!!!!!

  • anonymous

    that’s horrible they should make those ppl pay, go thru the legal system, and then send them home. they have to show that doing such acts wont be tolerated cuz otherwise its never going to stop. but everyone needs to remember that these 3 bochurim don’t reflect all tzfatim – not all of them are bad, so don’t blame all of them on the actions of some of them

  • STOP WITH THE NAMES

    If you don’t agree with something that either the Hanhala or anyone else is doing, you are welcome to call them up yourselves. Stop writing who you think should be doing what, because its not helping anything. If you want to help- then do it, but writing their names and venting your frustration is NOT helping.

    • Exposure! Roaches run away when the light comes on

      Brod needs to be exposed. He abuses weak boruchurim who cannot stand up to his threats. Aidel bochurim who have real middos are crushed by this tyrant. In a word, he is a BULLY. He must be removed from being in power over bochurim. He abuses his position. His name must be exposed for all parents to know. GET RID OF SHOLEM BER BROD!!

  • jewish dude

    When will these hate crimes stop. And where is the police? Maybe we need the FBI to step in, this has to stop. These individuals are terrorizing us in our own neighborhood.

  • Anonymous

    The Israeli embassy is meant 4 Davening not for a full fledged Yeshivah!
    The rebbe never agreed with it!
    For all i care, if thats going to make them leave they can take 770 with them!