Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Trustees of 770 fight Yudel Krinsky in court

Shheur Zalman of NY writes in the comments to this post:
I am surprised that no one is reporting Yudel Krinsky�s attempt at evicting the Cong. 770 where the Rebbe davened from the building of 770. He is fighting the duly elected gabboim and leadership of this kahal of Lubavitcher chasidim. He is doing this in secular court and against the will of all official rabbonim in Crown Heights.
In fact 770Rambler is doing an excellent job reporting on the issue (Didan Nozach, the sequel).

If you recall it all started with the confrontation after Yudel Krinsky & Co. installed a plaque on 770 referring to the Rebbe in the past tense. Yudel Krinsky went to court placing a restraining order on the offenders of the plaque (see a clarification on the sequence of the events in comments to this post). In turn 770 Trustees and Gabboim claiming to represent Congregation Lubavitch filed a cross motion claiming the ownership of the 770. They assert that he has not right to place a "divisive" plaque on the building.

To add drama to the struggle, a contingent of Tzfat bohrim was airlifted to 770 to reinforce the Mashichist camp. They already managed to case trouble.

And today this: "The visitors from Sefad joined their older friends today in chanting aloud, and in unison, from the Rebbe's Farbrengen Bima the law from Maimonides forbidding cooperating with gentile authorities."

UPDATE #1: COL - Chabad On Line: Photographic evidence of the plaque fight. Complete with pictures of the arrest of our Boston's own Ariel Sokolovsky.

UPDATE #2: To prove my point that any revolution will be blogged, a competing blog to the 770Rambler: 770 Reality.