Infighting inside the Jewish group. Nothing about rebuilding Solomon's Temple under NYC to cause the end of days... unfortunately. Hmm... could be a juicy new plot for a new Indiana Jones movie...Article doesn't answer my biggest question, what is the damn tunnel for?
Rub the walls and it turns into an aircraft hangar.I think they store all the foreskins down there.
I guess the protestors forgot the first rule of tunnel club.Infighting inside the Jewish group. Nothing about rebuilding Solomon's Temple under NYC to cause the end of days... unfortunately. Hmm... could be a juicy new plot for a new Indiana Jones movie...
Twitter Explodes With Antisemitic Misinfo After Secret Tunnel Found Under NYC Synagogue
News of secret tunnels beneath a Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn has led to antisemitic conspiracy theories about trafficking and "Jewish tunnels."www.rollingstone.com
The ultra orthodox are well accustomed to being above the law in NYC so really they were probably surprised they weren't allowed to get away with this.I guess the protestors forgot the first rule of tunnel club.
Seriously though, the fact that they were out protesting the removal of their illegal tunnel just screams that these yutes have a dangerous disconnect from reality. It's like bank robbers coming out to protest when their tunnel to the vault is getting filled back in. You don't sign a ransom letter...
Also, what was so important about access to the building? Nobody tunnels underground to access an unauthorized area just to play dreidel.
With the limited info we have, none of those make sense to me, except prepping. Why run anything illegal through a building you don't fully control? That seems like it introduces unnecessary risks.Yeah, still curious as to why.
To smuggle illegal goods?
To prep for the end of days?
Human trafficking?
They had a reason and it may be innocent, or far from it.
I'm sorry, but what exactly is important about tunnels dug next to a synagogue in New York? The article doesn't even explain why they were dug. So what are we supposed to infer?
And wow man, your tone is something else today. See how many fucks, dickwads and assholes you can fit into your next reply. Or maybe you'll get more creative.
It’s hard to overstate just how nuts the ultra orthodox are in NYC and hard to overstate the level of impunity they generally operate with.Well, for starters, New York has laws about such works, and it appears the tunnel may have been illegal. For another it led to a confrontation with the police and, it seems, angry public disputes between different groups associated with the Synagogue. It also, from what's said in the article, might constitute damaging a historic building.
It's true that the article doesn't explain anything about what the heck it was all about. Sounds as if it relates to some internal dispute among those running the Synagogue, and internal arguments within small groups are often near-incomprehensible to outsiders.
But tunneling in a major city usually requires some sort of permit, so it's a matter of public interest.
Also, the whole story is just odd.
They wanted to study the scriptures during lockdown?One of the stories I read claimed the tunnel was dug during lockdown, when religious services were restricted. I don't have the link, though., this is obviously very speculative.
There were limits on mass gatherings early on in 2020 and they wanted to defy them.They wanted to study the scriptures during lockdown?
The Torah Borah of New York?
It seems at least plausible that devout (or radical, if you prefer) individuals might take it upon themselves to gain access to their holy place from which they were restricted from going. I haven't heard a simpler explanation yet.They wanted to study the scriptures during lockdown?
The Torah Borah of New York?
Perhaps I need to check mine. I took the original post as a condemnation of religious fanaticism as an accurate assessment of its dangerousness precisely because the issue it created here was of such unimportance in the greater scheme of thingsy and only incidentally involved Jews, in short having really nothing at all to do with Jews directly but the fanaticism itself that was on display.It's usually quite good. You'll have to enlighten me about where the sarcasm is this time.
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Perhaps I need to check mine. I took the original post as a condemnation of religious fanaticism as an accurate assessment of its dangerousness precisely because the issue it created here was of such unimportance in the greater scheme of thingsy and only incidentally involved Jews, in short having really nothing at all to do with Jews directly but the fanaticism itself that was on display.
I have always seen you as Jewish by lineage and not by strength of religious devotion, a defender of Jewish people, not of the faith itself. I think the word Jewish has always had these two possible implications, at least for me.
So when I read the OP, I saw an example of nutcase religious belief incidentally unrelated to the faith of the people involved, and attached no significance to the OP’s title other than what religion this particular example of nut cases belonged to.
Perhaps given todays atmosphere I was wrong. For me all religions are beliefs that people believe in owing to factors of the time and place and culture they were born into, that your faith or absence of it is circumstantial, all written on the plasticity of our human potential and all of little relevance to truth with a capital t.
My utter contempt for what the Israeli government is doing to the people of Gaza, the fact they have no power over Hamas anymore than the Jews of Israel that also hold their own government in contempt, can stop the carnage, has to do with Zionist ambition and nothing to do with being Jewish. To attach significance to one’s nationality or religion or gene history is all the same insanity to me.