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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — No one ever believed 770 would devolve into utter chaos as it did this afternoon - not even the biggest sympathizers towards the Tzfati cause. Two members of the yeshiva's hanholo, Rabbi Kuti Feldman and Rabbi Zalman Labkowski, were both physically and verbally attacked by the same hooligans who have been running wild and unrestrained these past few weeks.

PANDEMONIUM: The Inmates Run Wild in the Asylum

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — No one ever believed 770 would devolve into utter chaos as it did this afternoon – not even the biggest sympathizers towards the Tzfati cause. Two members of the yeshiva’s hanholo, Rabbi Kuti Feldman and Rabbi Zalman Labkowski, were both physically and verbally attacked by the same hooligans who have been running wild and unrestrained these past few weeks.

Today’s episode began when Rabbi Labkowski was about to give his weekly Thursday Shiur at 1:30 in the downstairs of 770. About a half hour before the Shiur began, a Tzfati Bochur, Tzachi Cohen, stole the microphone that is usually used for the Shiur in retaliation for the revocation of one Tzfati’s visa.

Bochurim who wanted Rabbi Labkowski to give his shiur set up an alternative microphone – the Gabboim’s system (with their permission), and the Shiur began on time.

As the Shiur began, a Tzfati Bochur, Eliyahu Singawi – the one who had his visa revoked, ran over to the cabinet where the microphone system is kept and grabbed the wire, pulling it away in order to tear it.

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Rabbi Kuti Feldman went after the Bochur to get the microphone back, and was attacked by a gaggle of Tzfatis who kicked, punched and slapped him, eliciting cries of outrage from the hundreds of people who were present in 770.

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That wasn’t enough; another Bochur began yelling at Rabbi Labkowski, while spitting at him and throwing things. He shouted: ‘you should die today,’ ‘yemach shimcha,’ and ‘you menuval.’

According to witnesses, all this took place in the presence of Gabbai R. Menachem Gerelitzky and R. Yosef Braun, both of whom did not intervene.

One bochur told Crownheights.info that a Poilisher chossid happened to be present, and he asked him if this was regular occurrence in the shul, and why nobody did anything about it. The bochur couldn’t answer.

The incident concluded when Rabbi Labkowski left 770, and Shiur was canceled.

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132 Comments

  • nnff

    After doing crap for years and laughing at us they deserve every thing they get…

    Lapis and Kuti harbor this crap !!!!!

    Those who live by the sword will die by the sword!!!!!

    Let Rabbi Krinsky run the place!!!!! let his clean up crew take over!!!

  • Befuddled

    This entire situation befuddles me. If the powers that be can’t handle these matters internally why not call in the authorities? To quietly tolerate violence and overt bullying is negligent and cowardice. B’Makom Sh’aino Ish…

  • I-ve run out of sympathy

    Why are you posting this? GO TO THE POLICE & THE DA!

    Unless these thugs are deported we’ll keep on seeing more & more violence. It’s escalating because they’re not stopped.

    What are you waiting for? For someone to be killed? You have evidence. Use it or stop whining to us. I’m sick of reading this garbage week after week. If you won’t do what you have to do, you can only blame yourselves.

  • sarcasm

    You people at Crownheights.info make up such lies, look at the video again.. you can clearly see these people are merely joking around and do not intend any harm. You think Hanhala would let these guys get away with this?

  • Shameful!

    Clear out 770, then have stationed security guards only let back in the serious students. This is so shameful!

  • A Disgusted& fed up Baal Habayis!

    Bad enough that the incident happened again! If this is true that Gerlitsky & Mr. Braun witnessed it & did nothing then the following must happen 1. Gerlitsky must either be forced to resign or be fired as a Gabbai.@. The fact that a socalled Rav of the Kehilla witnesses this & says or soes nothing means He is not worthy & the same should happen.This is ridiculous The Gaboyim The Hanhola & The Rabbonim need to together make a public Shturem & publicly inform anyone who attends this meeting etc. anounce that this crap must immediately cease Furthermore if they don’t behave the next time the whole Kvutza will have their visas revoked & not allowed to return! THe Mashpiim & Rosh Yeshivas must be informed & told to advise any bachur wanting to be a part of the Kvutza that this behavior will not be tolerated they are to respect evryone be in seder on time etc. or else they can forget about coming!!

  • Yossi

    At least half of the Lubavitch community believes till this day that the rebbe is moshiach. Why would it then surprise you that in that 50% there are extremist? To say the rebbe is moshiach is extreme, of course you will have a percentage of the extreme who are even more extreme. That’s why we have these Taliban.

    They will not go away until the less extreme give it up GAURENTEED

    Signed,

    Not a gezhe

  • Your Burden to Carry

    Please stop posting this sensationalist garbage. These videos of a couple dozen imbalanced individuals are extremely damaging to public opinion and will keep thousands of Jews from walking into a Chabad House – do you really want to carry that burden on your shoulders?

  • He deserves it

    Zlaman Labkowski threatened to cancel the visa of the Austrlian bochur who got attacked last week because he called the cops on his attackers. If that’s Labkowski’s attitude, I couldn’t care less that his pet dogs turned on him.

  • Klumnik

    I Can’t believe that HaRav Broian was present & did not say anything, we all know that “Shtika Kehodoa” if he was there & did not protest, that means he agrees with them!

  • Talibanchikes

    what a shame we should all help this tzfatim beat up lapas and the rest of the “hanholo”
    for bringing this teror brigade to Crown Heights.

    Lapes lapes this are your terorists thank god you now feel what all of us feel

  • Old Geezer

    It’s just like the old days, when they threatened R’ Shmuel Levitin with a knife since he wasn’t “mekusher” enough…

    (The Rebbe accepted those claims, by the way, and allowed for a new Hanholo, run by R’ Dovid Raskin.)

  • someone

    Interestingly, until recently it was only the Tzfatis who even attended Rabbi Labkovski’s shiur, since the others boycotted it because of the events of the Weinstock will…

  • shayke

    To #10. Are you joking? The only connections these terrorists have to judaism is that they speak hebrew.

    They should be kicked out and never allowed back.

    This problem is far more URGENT than the tznius in CH

  • Don-t get it

    I don’t get it. There were “hundreds of people who were present in 770”

    Why couldn’t some of the “hundreds of people who were present in 770” drag them by their beards out into the street?

  • Rationalist

    I see girls going through applications, interviews, getting reccomendation letters etc.. to get in to seminary. Perhaps 770 would do well to also be more selective and weed out the hooligans.

  • CHT

    The way I remember:

    1. Tora teacher can beat student, even if he kills him as a result. Visa issues are nothing compared to this.

    2. Going like this to a teacher is the absolute last red line one can cross. I knew talmidim that accidentally raised the voice on a teacher, or even talked back a bit – and they had to go through serious teshuva process to gain forgiveness.

  • shocked

    I am shocked at the title of this article: “PANDEMONIUM: The Inmates Run Wild in the Asylum.” I am shocked that Crownheights.info would allow such a name to be placed on an article as it presents extreme bias and disdain for other Jews; not natural reporting.

    I do not find anything wrong with a friendly quarrel especially when there is a lot of testosterone in one room. In fact, with so many young men in one room, it is shocking that there are not large brawls everyday.

    Just to be clear: there is no problem with bochurim getting into a fist fight or CHI reporting it. The caption, however, is offensive. I would expect to see such a caption in a pro-Nazi, anti-sematic publication; not a publication generated by orthodox Jews.

  • C S

    If those in charge had taken charge a long time ago, then everyone would have been angry.
    Now that the entire world sees how corrupt, unstructured, and chaotic this place is, it’s easy to see that the entire place will soon implode from within.

    Hopefully 770 can be renovated and cleared out of shtus…
    May only Kedusha reign!

  • Throw them out!

    I would have called the cops for an EDP for starters, and if a visa was revoked maybe he needed help packing…too much free time does this to you. Dancing happens a few times daily, but there is much more time to have to keep occupied, so the next best thing is…bitul Torah I guess.

  • ch

    “Zlaman Labkowski threatened to cancel the visa of the Austrlian bochur who got attacked last week because he called the cops on his attackers. If that’s Labkowski’s attitude, I couldn’t care less that his pet dogs turned on him.”

    If that is true, Labkowski is violating the law.

  • Phillip

    It’s full lip, that’s all. And no one cares about a guy like you who knows nothing about what is a jew, talk about erev rav, that is you all the way. What terrorists? But it is funny that you called them so now they know to at least look out for a crackpot rasha like you. And by the way, they are staying, and you are going. Bye, bye.

  • clean up this mess

    I have not walked into 770 for over a year, i do live 1 block away, and will not walk in there until this issue is cleared up, id rather daven in any shul or no shul instead of this crap.

  • Don-t take my doughnut

    Someone took a doughnut by mistake that was being saved for someone to eat later. No big deal. But the video is cute.

  • Yankel

    Cancel their visas. Bring in Homeland Security and send them back to Tzfas. The time has come. How can we permit this kind o outrageous behavior in the Beis Chayenu.

    In the meanwhile let CrownHeights.into put up their names so we can know who is causing the disruption.

  • DeClasse- Intellectual

    When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Devise hatred has been the major cause of the negative history of the Jews and it is the reason why this exile has lasted as long as it has. It is discussed in the Gemora why the the exile after the destruction of the First Bais HaMekdosh was short in comparison to the one now. so in answer to the question above and to the question of where is the Mossiach–the aswer as shown by today’s events is nevermore!!!!!!!

  • people please read number 5

    number 28 you didnt read my post number 5 people please read the posts a lot of what your feeling has already been taken care of thank you

  • moti

    It’s Purim coming up – as the Megillah says, they violate the king “in his own palace” – now tell me these guys really believe the Rebbe is there? They are either liars/charlatans/planted by the shabak or just plain crazy. Either way deport them now. Or betters till report to the cops. They are rodfim. Are we waiting for someone to be killed r”l?

  • not surprised

    do you remember what mr. braun said when he became the “rav“? blood will flow but there will be shalom……..lol!

  • Kreindel

    This place needs to hire Rabbi Gansburg to bring peace, calm and level headedness… Rabbi Gansburg has experience with bochurim of all excited levels… This group of Talibani Moshichists need to be deported. Yasher Koach to the one who called Homeland Security. Tfzatim should be on terrorist list, no ifs or buts. Kick their stinkin’ **** out of this country! AMEN> Let it be a season of Simcha V’Tzoholo, not Simcha v”HATZOLOH!

  • moti

    #26 you are joking right? Shoot the messenger?
    Has the whole world gone completly NUTS? Would they do this in front of the Rebbe pre 3 tammuz? Get real

  • Mr Braun

    Crown heights were warned about Braun’s true colors; they ignored the warnings and voted for him anyway. The chickens are coming home to roost….

  • Farbrenged with bochurim

    Why is it that they let Torah teachers talk to the boys? The boys get along fine ,very fine without the socalled teachers, mashpiim. They have been out of touch for at least 40 years that I can remember. Leave the boys alone and they would do just FINE. Some bochurim said they had a great farbrengen motze Shabbos and it was the first time they heard such remarkable stories and wanted to know why no one ever told them the truth about the things that have been going on for so long. Their rebbe in yeshivah said they loved the farbrengen. A guten Chodesh Adar.

  • 31 is a moron

    31 your trying to use my name and talk about me that way first off I got reshus from my community to do it second i am tired of the messianic Christians in chabad already enough is enough. You want o start with me you should cut your beard off your not a jew your a moron.

  • My thoughts

    Telling another Jew to die and “yimach shmo” is a no-no!

    Rumor has it that Braun did not see this whole event as he was buys learning for his Smicha.

  • comment

    where are all the legal experts who love the Rebbe, why can’t they give advice on how to legally get these out of control mental cases messed up to get them away from the Rebbe’s space????????????????????????????????
    HOWEVER, sheker does not have 2 legs and they will ruin themselves if not by anyone else. these insane out of controls think that this is mivtzoim or something?

  • ruvi

    Not ever tsfati is a terrorist but every terrorist is a tsafti wearing a yechi yamulke!!!!!!

  • emunoh peshuta

    CAN WE HAVE A VOTE TO RE-INSTATE THE REBBE TO 770?? THE TZAFATIS CLOSED HIM OUT.

  • A solution ( part 3 )

    The hanhalah would never and could never revoke the visas or screen the bochurim before the new zman arrives. They are beholden to their puppeteer. He has to approve of their every action.

    Now it will be interesting to see if Braun will take on his paymasters, Hendel and Drizin.

    Doubtful.

    This theoretically could get interesting, say if one day bochur/bochurim decided to set their sights on and attack Braun for whatever reason.

    Boy would that give Hendel a logistical headache !

    Someone should take the hanhala to a non Lubavitch Beis Din and give them a dressing down once and for all, expose them for the castrated eunuchs that they truly are.

    Only shame might set things straight here. And alas, we need outsiders to do that for us, as we have no checks and balances in our current system.

  • R. garlitzky and R. Broin

    R. Garlitzky was definitively there, we all saw him there. even standing a bit on the Gaza strip AKA the Farbrengen stage. he commented to some Bochrim that went over to him “what can i do” and regarding R. Broin I am not positive that he saw the entire thing but i definitively saw him and the end of this thing (around 2) and a bachur said that he commented “what can i do, at least there is some action happening here”

    anyway, i cant for sure blame them at that point for not mixing in, cause it was a pretty scary sight (they – the tzfatim – called for “back up” in the middle…) but NOW all these people that can (and yes they can AS A ‘TEAM’ TOGETHER) MUST do something!

    Do you remember when every other Shabbos there was a Macha’ah read in 770 (I think by Reb LY Shapiro – Beis Din)? why dont they at least do that, why are the Rabbanim so quite?

    THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “MESHECHISTIM AND ANTI’S”, THAT IS OVER , YES BASICALLY OVER!!. these are some crazy people that are Mechalel the name of the Rebbe so many times for the past 10 years and NO ONE IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

    Crown heights WAKE UP!!! im not sure what you are all waiting for. just because you don’t like Rabbi Krinsky etc. so you will just let all this garbage continue?!?!

    The Bachur that started this entire thing today is just sitting in 770 now as if nothing happened. CRAZY. CRAZY.

    and now we just entered Choidesh Adar, so from now until Pesach (cause we need to continue the “Simcha”) will be their danching. that means 770 is CLOSED (not actually, but practically) every night from 1030-12. and this is normal!!

    is this what the Rebbe worked for over 40 years? all the Rabei’im?
    IS THIS GONNA REALLY BRING MOSHIACH? THE REBBE BACK, AND NOW??!!

    and just to conclude to quote from the article “a Poilisher chossid happened to be present, and he asked him if this was regular occurrence in the shul, and why nobody did anything about it. The bochur couldn’t answer.”
    =CHILEL SHEIM LUBAVITCH!!!

  • Me of Course

    We should stop undermining our own Rabonnim and only then can we decide what their job is, but until then why do we expect them to do things we want, when anyways we’re not intrested in them, time to stop undermining our Rabonnim.

  • shlomo as always with bad English

    thahi kohen not i eshiva. he lives some years in CH. i knew him 2 years, and very surprised. but look like it very organized. thachi only make nose, but support was prepare for this.
    we need bIg YELLOW things on 770. like
    NO KIPA YEHI ALLOWED!

  • To#44&46

    It was suppose to say TO Phillip. He is sorry for the error. You mentioned your community. You are not in this community, I assume.
    You have NO idea what this is about, none whatsoever. Most of the C.H. community are also no different as to knowledge of the situation. They do not have a clue. They are young and have been mislead for so many years. It is the same for K’lal Yisrael. Look at Israel, for example. Do you for one minute think that Israelis are able to think rationally? This is not a critisism. They have lived under the gun for so long. The truth that they know, is ALL false. Enemies from without & worse enemies from within. It is that way with k’lal Yisrael. If you are not from C.H. and you are upset about being judged, how can YOU judge with no understanding at all. You are not serious, just looking for something to do to make more something out of nothing YOU know about. Anyone who knows even a little bit about the Rebbe, knows that from day one it was ALL about Moshiach & Geulah, and if they did not get it then, well they got it NOW. You want to cut off beards, so do chabadskers. What makes you different? Well they DO trim or cut off their beards. Do you? Happy now. You are very young, or so it seems, and you are being mislead and encouraged by a community that is repulsive at best. Run for your life. Thank G-d,those that choose MHM have MHM. Those that choose Geulah have Geulah. Everyone has free choice. It is up to you. A wonderful,simchadik Chodesh Adar.

  • Mafia in 770

    did anyone notice the “al tizalem po” at the end of the clip? they don’t want their dirt shown in public, that’s all they are worried about? shame on the hanhola, shame on the gaboim shame on anyone who can do something about this.

    People of chabad, why do you stand for this? get these clowns out, our schools are being run by incompetent idiots!

  • answering 56

    Mr 56 I actually grew up in crown heights for 16 years of my life. I also lived in Gush Etzion as a mitnachel for 3 1/2 years I do follow chabad chassidus as well as i study Rav Kook , and other Rabeium and I have come to my own conclusions in Life on my deech but that neither here nor there. I believe int eh Rebbe very strongly. But sir you are so missing the point . you are think emotionally and not logically. First and foremost when i say my community the Rebbe said am yisrael is one so ch is my community cause every jew is connected. Second did you read i quoted Rambam word for word you are not aloud to hit your teacher or curse at him . Not in YU or litvish or other chasidish yeshivas except maybe in Ramat bet Shemesh Bet were the crazies live does one hit a Magid Shiur . I do not care If i was to walk in to Rapanovich and they are misnagdim I do not agree with them but chas v shalom i would not hit or talk about tere rabbis because they are holy people. The same with the Magid Shiur In 770 he is hired to be a teacher no one but no one has a right to touch another jew in the Rebbes House No one but no one has a right to his his teach and scream yimach shemo are you kidding me sir are you out of your mind saying yimach shemo . The only Jew i said yimiach shemo too was openheimer in Israel for selling us out to the goyim and trying to rid the settlements if your not familiar with peace now i can teach you that also. 770 has become trashed by these people.
    Let me ask you something if you were standing on the temple mount and a magid shiur was up there giving a lesson and a jew punched him in the face do you think that would be tolerated or at the kotel . 770 is the bes hamikdash in the galut and has a certain respect to maintain in that shul. So no sir I do understand quite well everything. I am not corrupt by Crown Heights politics I gave myself over to Hashem that is all I need buddy. That and to hold on to the prayers of the Tzaddikim and Especially the Rebbe

  • THE SOLUTION.

    when entering any situation EVER, you have to SURVEY THE SCENE TO SEE IF IT IS SAFE for you. Nobody stopped this crazy man because obviously it wasn’t SAFE for them then, and maybe later in their life…bec we don’t deal with mental people because we are not a trained, armed,professional,security guard, or whatever sort of position you are trained for, to deal with a situation like that. GET IT?
    so STOP putting other people to blame for “not doing anything” because you are just too naive with real life tough situations that may happen when dealing with a dangerous terrorist.

    SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
    770 MUST hire a crew of PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED ,and maybe even armed, tough big scary security guys.(and you know i do NOT mean shmirah or shomrim.) Guards who really know how to deal with violence and other dangers so that everyone crazy ( and face it, wherever you go there are crazy people like terrorist ect….) will be under control in case of any violence. Then, people wont start up physically or by harassing others in 770 ever bec these guys will take care of you by arresting you or making sure your face never dares to enter 770 again bec they will be watching for security.

    A sponsor will gladly be appreciated I’m sure.

  • Police

    Why don’t they call the police? Who are they afraid of? I remember when the Rebbe told someone who attempted violence, albeit much less, that with such behavior he should move out of crown heights and go ‘somewhere else’

  • It should be obvious to all ---

    770 has been hijacked! Throw the bums out! What a chilul Lubavitch!

  • To#60 from you know who

    Is this the final solution? You sure qualify as a rotten, disgusting terrorist. You are a serious threat to people. Typical left winger, hire someone else. You have no guts, you are a coward, and you cry for someone else to please come help mama’s little boy out. Lefties, lefties, yamach shmum, go on home and suck your thumb. Mommy, give your little boy his pacifier.

  • ATT: crownheights.info

    ATT: crownheights.info

    please do not give these few Wackos so much attention.

    take care of it without dragging us all into the actions aof a few nuts.

    can you please now show some amazingly shockingly good things normal people do every day? in and out of 770?

    you have a great responsibility.

  • victim

    When I was physically hurt by a Lubavitcher I asked a shaaloh what to do. The Rav told me I MUST go to the authorities because this violence will just continue.

    That was many years ago, over 15. He was right things have gotten worse. I’m afraid the next thing someone will be very badly hurt or R”L dead.

  • MMB

    Closed own 1414 so when this group of mishigoim leave no new group can come. Let these petzelach join the IDF and straighten their act out. Anywhere but here. They’re NOT WANTED,period.
    Sholem Ber Brodt you must stop arranging visas for these Stone Age leftovers.

  • Rethinking....

    I can’t believe it but I’m starting rethink this whole Gaboyim business. Can it be worse if Yudel is in charge?

  • Calling 770 an Asylum?

    Had I not watched this video I would have you condemned in the strongest terms for calling 770 an asylum, but after seeing these videos what can I say?

  • anonymous

    The rebbe would be crying had he seen it (which he most likely did and is still crying), what a chutzpah, to lift a hand at another jew in the name of Moshiach in the Rebbes shul?! Feh, this is disgusting!!!

  • Emanuel

    Did anyone noticed, on the second video, there is this young man, between minutes 1:28 to 1:30 then again at 2:12 minutes and 2:30 to 2:40 at the right hand side of the video footage, fervently trying to focus on his prayers? He never lost focus, that my dear friends, is what prayer should be and is all about. Even when mayhem was taking over, this young man stood up for his moment between him and H-m!

  • krinsky kotlarsky marlow shemtoc

    what do you expect
    braun had the endorsment of marlow son from north miami beach
    crazies that believe in placing the rebbe with a crown and orange kapote are allowed to be in 770 is beyond me
    if krinsky and kotlarsky shemtov dont address this issue they are worthless

    braun must go if he sttod by and did nothing

  • Rabbi Akiva and Rabban Gamliel

    Does anybody see where this pathetic young man is standing??
    it’s the place that the lubavitcher rebbe farbreng, kos shel bracha, dollars, love to every human being, it’s a place that is so dear to each and every one of us.

    And this pathetic man is spewing hate from this place????????

    i guess it gives new meaning to the story in the Talmud about Rabbi Akiva and Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, Rabbi Joshua they saw a fox emerging from the place of the Holy of Holies. The others started weeping; Rabbi Akiva laughed.

    Said they to him: “Why are you laughing?”

    Said he to them: “Why are you weeping?”

    Said they to him: “A place [so holy] that it is said of it, ‘the stranger that approaches it shall die,’1 and now foxes traverse it, and we shouldn’t weep?”

    Said he to them: “That is why I laugh. For it is written, ‘I shall have bear witness for Me faithful witnesses–Uriah the Priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.’2 Now what is the connection between Uriah and Zechariah? Uriah was [in the time of] the First Temple, and Zechariah was [in the time of] the Second Temple! But the Torah makes Zachariah’s prophecy dependent upon Uriah’s prophecy. With Uriah, it is written: ‘Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field; [Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the Temple Mount like the high places of a forest.]’3 With Zachariah it is written, ‘Old men and women shall yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem.’4

    ”As long as Uriah’s prophecy had not been fulfilled, I feared that Zechariah’s prophecy may not be fulfilled either. But now that Uriah’s prophecy has been fulfilled, it is certain that Zechariah’s prophecy will be fulfilled.“

    With these words they replied to him: ”Akiva, you have consoled us! Akiva, you have consoled us!”

  • Understand rabbi Braun

    He has young children attending school unlike other rabbis
    in our community,
    Now imagine him being threaten by those
    Tzfatis

  • Chillul Hashem!!!!!

    What a sick thing to put onto a site, even if this story is true. What a Chilul Hashem!!!!!!!!!!!

  • NoYechiIn770Jerusalem

    Just put R’Dovid Mandelbaum in charge,he”ll know how to deal with them!!!!

  • The little r

    To No. 69:
    You wrote, “Can somebody explain to me what is so bad about Messirah?”
    Well the Tzfatis are asking almost the same question, without the “r”. “Can somebody explain to me what is so bad about Messiah?”

  • Thats retarded

    To # 26: I think I must have misunderstood you, are your realy suggesting that this is acceptable behaviour? explanable by high testosterone? I dont get involved in Mishichist & anti fights but this is just not mentshlich. Someone should have picked him up and carried him out. He can talk out his problems in a normal manner like every other human being on the planet.

  • #74 EMANUEL

    Actually Emanuel that’s what we call a chosid shoiteh. And sounds like you’re one too!

  • wow

    So let me get this straight, the guy was punched, slapped and spit-on and what did the guy do? … Canceled his Shiur and walked away! COWARD!

  • Modern day Beis Hamikdash in destruction

    עַל־זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔נוּ עַל־אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽינוּ׃
    עַ֤ל הַר־צִיֹּון֙ שֶׁשָּׁמֵ֔ם שׁוּעָלִ֖ים הִלְּכוּ־בֹֽו

    For this our heart has become faint,
    for these things our eyes have grown dim.
    For Mount Zion, which has become desolate;
    foxes prowl over it.

  • horrified

    I would never want my son to be apart of this.
    Many are completely turned off to chabad because of this. Is it not stopped because the leaders in Chabad think that this is legitimate? If so, I also want no part.

  • Braun won-t go

    Because he likes his free tuition, housing and a following of idiots who are too ignorant of Torah and halacha to know any better. his ego is massive & he gets away with behaving like a bochur instead of a “Rav.” Which he really isn’t because he doesnt have a real Semicha or Dayanus.

    I’d like to see Rabbi Osdoba do something but he is as useless in his own way as Schwei (who doesn’t seem to know what day it is anyway). Krinsky & Shemtov have the power but are too scared to use it so they also dont do anything and hide in a corner. We are in real trouble, my friends, there isnt one person in Lubavitch today with any spine. Satmar, Bobov, Belz etc are laughing at us.

  • irrelevant braun

    To #75 who wrote:
    “braun must go if he sttod by and did nothing”

    You see, to “GO”, one would need to “come”. Braun never came in to my world, so therefore he cant “GO”.

    Braun is a nothing, hes irrelevant.

    Let’s not forget who brought this Braun fellow to Crown Heights.

  • ahavas chinam

    thats the only way to.

    In Parshas Shemos it says “Moshe says to the Rasha”, he didnt hit the other yid, he just lifted his hand, and Moshe called him a rasha. It is the worst crime for a yid to hit one another.

    IN THE REBBES SHUL.??????????????????????

  • We shall see soon

    To # 85
    Labkowski is a coward, thats for sure, but not for walking away yesterday.

    If you were standing there, and these events were transpiring, and nobody in the room is coming to your help what would you do ?

    I didn’t see any baalei batim or other bochurim helping out and taking control of the situation. They seemed to be in observer status mode, deciding which way the wind was blowing.

    Should he have continued standing there and take it from that guy and let it escalate ?

    Rather, he should be making an emergency meeting with the hanhala and the beis din that very same day, and come back powerfully and forcefully.

    We shall see over shabbos what their comeback is.

    We will all know very soon if he is truly a coward or not.

  • this crap is nausiating.

    Look at the useless fools sitting there videoing this and doing nothing… And people wonder why CH is such a shanda these days? You are either a part of the problem or part of the solution.. those who sit by doing nothing are just as much a problem as those on the podium…. mass exodus let’s see it. Such sina among yidden shouldn’t be allowed such a holy place… leave it to the streets and the west bank.

  • Remember the Shomrim Six

    Whats really funny (and perhaps sad) is that the only people to ever stand up to these animals was a group of truly good people, a group that devotes themselves to the safety of our shechuna so selflessly.

    Yes, I am referring to the *SHOMRIM*.

    They stood up to these thugs when they beat up the shluchim in 770 after the kinus hashluchim and they stood up to them when they tried to institute their terror in 749 against an ‘infidel non-believer’ when they tried to throw him out of his dorm room.

    For their trouble they were put into a much bigger fight, a fight for their lives, a fight trying to avoid 15 years in prison, all for one reason – these terrorists knew that nothing will stop the Shomrim from standing up to them, so they concocted their blood libel.

    But that was not the real tragedy. Heavens no.

    The real tragedy was that the community – the shechuna – stood silent and let the travesty continue go on unrestrained.

    The famous quote from a German pastor Martin Niemöller referenced to the holocaust comes painfully to mind:

    First they came for the communists,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

    Then they came for me
    and there was no one left to speak out for me.

    There was no one left to speak for Shomrim so the community is left with nobody and nothing to speak for them.

    Congratulations Crown Heights! We did this to ourselves and have only ourselves to blame.

  • Boro Park to#75

    Again you speak about the crown. Now you have another problem. You think it is always another tzura. We don’t think so. You Cabadskers never remain on the real topic Moshiach and Geulah. If you are so against these things what are you, who are you. We don’t think you know, you are so mixed up. If you would have kept up with the crown story you would have a better idea of what we think, at least some of us in B.P. We looked back at the story of the tank with the Rebbe and the crown and we saw that also someone from Wiliamsburg made a comment. Of course not everyone agrees, but when did Jews agree. The Torah is full of arguments and fighting between Jews. You do not want to know what other people think and want to live in your own little world. We also have many who think the same way. I think most Jews are afraid to look at other peoples point of view. Good Shabbos

  • 770 normal again please

    this was shown all ovr florida
    thanks guys for the kiddush hashem you tzfatim make
    please do not allow them here for two years
    settle 770 down close the yeshiva nad bring in ten serious learners who kearn in the upstairs zal and close downstairs excet for time to daven

  • idiots

    I can’t figure out who is the bigger idiot, the people screaming, or the people who allow this to go on? there’s no question this guy can be arrested for what he did here in the video. He was threatening this guy “tizaher” and death threat too (you should die) what does it take to get a guy kicked out of yeshiva these days?

    Sorry for being so soft, but if I wrote what I was really thinking CH.info would not be allowed to post it

  • Motti you are a moron

    Can’t you come up with something better than that? Who cares if you put on Tefillin? G-d does, but you obviously don’t care about Him.

    Pathetic, stupid threat.

  • To#97 from Gedaliah Goodman

    Why?? The foundation is so weak, thats why. And you are not sick about Eretz Yisrael, not sick about Gavi & Rivkah, not sick about tzniut, not sick about trimming beards, not sick about Shainah Bruchah, Deitch, etc.,etc. This is a CULLAH, a kleinchekah sach, a small thing, a gurnish in comparison. For sure it should not happen and should be rectified. But want to shave the beard?? This is the reaction of a person with the midot of a child, as is explained in the Tanya K’deshah. People were murdered for refusing to remove their beard. The foundation is weak. Motzei Shabbos I was asked to farbreng with a class of bochurim. Beautiful, wonderful, kids, but kids. I mentioned many stories of older chassidim, stories about the MHM, etc. They were unaware of almost anything from years gone by. The foundation is weak, very very, weak. The Tanya K’deshah speaks about the need for proper training, and MHM spoke and addressed this to me in Yechidus, telling me to help with, among other things, the strengthening of the foundation of Yiddishkeit. Be strong young man ,be strong. It may be difficult at first, but you will succeed. There is a saying, and I am very familiar with it b’poel mamash, in actuality, ‘you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink’. Shabbat Shalom, A Guten Shabbos, Chodesh Tov, A Guten Chodesh, and above all, YECHI HAMELECH

  • MC

    Dear Commenters,
    The comments here are disturbing. Where is our respect for Rabbanim, Torah and human beings? If you have something to criticize about someone, please do it in an intelligent manner. Name calling, is childish and mean. I really hope that these comments don’t represent the mentchlechkeit of the community of Crown Heights as a whole. Praying for the day where we can be respectful towards members of our own community. Ahavat Chinam will bring Moshiach. Good Shabbos!

  • terrible

    Did you see that? he threw somebodies hat and jacket! did he ask permission? that’s so sad. Why would he treat someone’s property with such disrespect.

  • Concernd ch resident

    Maybe now they will actually throw these animals out of 770, and stop their student visa’s.

    New policy NO TZVATI BOCHURIM ALLOWED TO NY ON STUDENT VISA, and all the ones here DEPORT THEM.

  • not news

    “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

  • Pashkvil

    This is definitely a horrible story. The Pashkvil you posted at the end of the post says very important things, but since it is not signed, it carries no weight and it is only a Pashkvil. There is no point in posting such things it is just like any other anonymous comment (that doesn’t bring a logical argument.

  • To bor park #93

    The most confusing comment so far, can you explain what you are trying to say…. I am lost.

    Did you have a crown? who lost the crown? can I have a crown?

    Just asking.

    Awaiting another confusing comment but not holding my breath. :)

  • Beinish

    It seems that Rabbis Shemtov and Krinsky failed to restore order to the shul.

    It’s time to ask Rabbi Kotlarsky, who has good relationships with EVERYONE in Lubavitch, to step and make peace all around.

    HE COULD DO IT.

  • GOOD NEWS

    What is now happening at 770 are good news. It is time for the Christian Lubavitchers to break their own backs. Because nobody else seems to be prepared to throw those Christians out of the place.

  • Your nuts 99

    Mr 99 I’m sure if the rebbe knew how you’d end up he would’ve kicked you out of his office with a big frask.

  • yechi hamelech?

    this’s what u call yechi hamelech?!?
    this’s tottaly against the Rebbe hole life!

    we don’t nead terrorist in new york send them back to israel.

    don’t waste yours time (like this crazy people) reading this comments and do something usefull in life.

  • Meir

    In all sincerity I really really doubt
    If those boys are from jewish decent

    Sorry but I have no other explanation

    For sure drum they won’t remain.

    Rabbi wilschnsky time to commit
    Suicide. God will understand.

  • Mr.108

    Thats your problem. You lefties think that everything the Rebbe does is a mistake. A friends son came home from the farbrengen that he gave last week and he loved it so much. We hear that the boys were very inspired. I am sure you will not like that either. I hope Gedaliah will keep it up and make a lot more farbrengens. Hey, Gedaliah, how about some more of the farbrengens like you used to make in 770. There are a lot of us who want to hear about your shlicut. The stories are really inspiring and you always teach us a tremendous lesson which gives us a lot of strength. And to mr108, I know, I know, the Rebbe, in your eyes, was wrong again.

  • Concerned

    Let see krinsky and merkos take over the shul for a change. Maybe they can do a better job at cleaning house and restoring lubavitch and it name.

  • For 108

    It seems to me that you and your ilk R’L have already been kicked out of, not just 770, but out of the Rebbe MHM’s army, and also yiddishkeit. You don’t even have enough respect or care for the Rebbe MHM, to at LEAST spell Rebbe with a capital R. You are sure megaleh datchah, (reveal yourself), by showing how you revile the Rebbe MHM. We all already got your number, lefty.

  • Zalman J.

    I was there from almost the beginning till well after the end. its a lie that Braun was there! A blatant Lie. from all your comenters there is no one who said that he did see him there. why discredit yourself?

  • CHUTZPAH

    1) What a CHUTZPAH to call HARAV braun – Mr..
    2) HARAV braun DID make a MACHOAH.
    3) it’s %100 wrong what they did – bot it’s not the TZFATIM it’s a few MISHUGOIM that did it – %75 of them are good BOCHURIM.

  • 108 righties are like obama lovers

    mr 108 you righties to mee are like leftists in israel like obama lovers your like wacko libs who have ruined america have ruined israel your pathetic you hurt lubavitch you hurt the shluchim the right is a joke like the na na nachmans your one big joke if i could kick u out of lubavitch and make you a church i would your not jewish your christians and your ideology is christian you made the Rebe into Jesus thank you very much The Rebbe Z’L was the Moshe of our generation but He is not hear If he isn’t moshiach it doesn’t matter as long as we leave galut you all do not know how to learn torah you only know sichas can not even quote torah sources your pathetic please leave lubavitch I am Beginning you

  • Fresser Rebbe

    BH

    Ubiarta Harah Mekirbechah, send them back to Tzfat and because they may need some staff to care for them i suggestsending Rabbi Kuti Rapp and Rabbi Broyn along with them.

  • Zalman

    I would like to know why crownheight.info allows some of the above comments. Those which are neither helpful, insightful or intelligible.

    It is as if there is a conscious effort to encourage loshon hora and negative feelings between Jews.

    There is place for CIVIL debate about such issued that face us, but the lengths that people got o to bad-mouth Rabbonim etc i feel is unacceptable.

    We need to face reality and understand that this fringe element that causes so much controversy does just that. Causes controversy and anger.

    We no longer preside in Russia and maybe it isn’t the WORST thing in the world to take action against these disgraceful examples of Jews to be dealt with with the full strength of the Law.

    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We should all stand up and scream, WE NO LONGER STAND FOR THIS BEHAVIOR!!!

  • Why didn-t they show this to Oprah?

    Remember when you were proud to be Lubavitch?
    I can’t either.

  • They must go!

    This is not a matter of the Moshiach issue.

    These hooligans could CARE LESS about the Rebbe, Moshiach or anything else. They just need a cause to be able to justify their violent and aggressive actions. They’re not harmless NaNachs – they’re our Sickriki and they’ve gotta go.

    Who knows what ship they came in on, but it is time to send every one of them back to EY. If they are violent, let them fight Arab terror instead of innocent Chassidim.

    And Goodman, stick with your horses and your friend from the Troller shtibl in Boro Park.

  • Law and order

    Please get spy cameras we need private investigators so we could get these trouble makers out of 770. Arm the bochrim with video cameras and get law enforcement to deal with these perpetrators.

  • MOSHIACH NOW!!!!

    Is this what The Rebbe would want? to see Bochurim fighting like this? because of a visa? WE NEED MOSHIACH NOW!!!! AD MOSAI!!

  • Shmuel Levinson

    We should Hire Goyish guards to keep the order in 770
    The Litvaks hired Russian Biryonim in Jerusalem and took over the Chabad Shul in Kiryat Yovel , We should do the same

    i am embarrassed by these Hooligans make us look so bad
    The Hooligans are working with S”M against Moshiach himself.
    Yechhi Adoneynu Moreinu Verabeynu Melech HaMoshiach Leolam Va’ed

  • A soldier in THe Rebbes army

    The community in ch are not taking any action so the cancer rl is spreading. In Chicago years ago responsible people took action against the messianic cult.As a result thier High school is folding their chilul Hashem messianic tank dosent exist they can barely get a minyan shabos in their CH—ilul Hashem house.The mainstream community is flourishing and growing with mosdos that are leshem ulitiferes.The comunity grows and many of those who were sucked in years ago have come back to normal Chabad. with great nachas from their children .Unfortunately those who remained in the cult nebech have children off the derech,the ones who rejected their parents craziness are flourishing chasidisha kids. Save crown heights its time to stand up and fight yes fight because pasivity in the eyes of the crazees only encourages them. I know I was on the frontlines years ago and BH our strong stance in the community saved our community.We all get along despite the strong stance we tookagainst them if you mean leshem Shomayim Hashem will help.They know we love them as brothers but we dont tolerate thiercraziness.

  • shlomo as always with bad English

    today on a bohurim board in 770 i see psak in Hebrew only, that forbid speak about case, look video, and advertise it especially outside CH. as sovetborn jew it clear for me . i knew this sourse of mind. it pure KGB method. i cant prove, but I’m sue that Shvei get salary from kgb. it can’t be something else.

  • to99

    I understand that your answer is to #94 about shaving the beard. You are right on. Thanks for your comment. There is a response from the Rebbe on this issue right now on the other site colive. I see that as usual you see the subject in the exact light as the Rebbe. I try to follow all your comments, keep them coming. Thanks.

  • yanover

    zchor es amalek. happy purim everyone!!! we have a chance to carry out this mitzvah!!