INBOX: The Million-Dollar Question – Where Is the Security at 770?

On the night a car repeatedly slammed into the entrance of 770, the question on everyone’s mind was painfully simple: How is this still possible?

Here’s the part that should make every Chossid deeply uncomfortable. Public records show that the nonprofits operating out of 770 have not been ignored when it comes to security funding. New York State’s own contract database lists $800,000 in homeland-security and nonprofit-security grant contracts awarded to Chabad headquarters–linked entities over the past several years. These are security-specific grants, separate from everyday donations, operating budgets, or general support.

And yet, after all that, we are still asking whether basic, visible vehicle-ram mitigation exists at the most iconic Jewish address in the world.

So it’s time to stop mumbling and ask the question out loud:

If the funding exists, why are we still relying on luck and last-second police response?

Where is the plan?

Where is the urgency?

Who is responsible for executing it—and who has the authority to say yes?

We can no longer hide behind the ongoing “legal dispute” between the Gabbaim and Merkos as an excuse for paralysis. Security is not politics. It is not turf. It is life and death. Internal disagreements do not suspend responsibility.

Anash deserve transparency. Not slogans. Not reassurances. An actual accounting. What grants were awarded? Which funds were drawn down? What was installed? What wasn’t—and why?

Because when $800,000 in security funding is associated with 770, yet the building still feels exposed, something is broken. And pretending otherwise is no longer an option.