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News ‘A little naive’: Details emerge about students arrested in tunnel fracas at Chabad world headquarters
Those arrested were young Israeli rabbinical students
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Culture A guide to the Talmud for all the haters
The Talmud, made as simple as possible — which is not very
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News A brief history of the Messianic movement that inspired the tunnel under 770 Eastern Parkway
Experts say the yeshiva students who built it saw themselves as paving the way for the rebbe’s return
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Fast Forward NYC investigators find 60-foot underground tunnel beneath building next to Chabad headquarters
Investigators uncovered “a single linear underground tunnel” that was approximately 8 feet wide and 5 feet tall and had been illegally excavated
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Culture On X, Jewish tunnel conspiracies reveal antisemitic pages masquerading as pro-Palestinian advocacy groups
Accounts with names like DefundIsraelNow are gleefully posting antisemitic memes about the tunnels
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Culture Not just Chabad headquarters: The secret Jewish history of secret Jewish tunnels
Jewish groups through history have used tunnels for warfare, resource transportation and more
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Opinion How Twitter activists turned a viral story about Orthodox Jews into a modern blood libel
White nationalists, rebranded as 'pro-Palestinian activists,' have used the war and recent news cycles to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories
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Fast Forward So why were those yeshiva students digging a tunnel at Chabad headquarters?
The fracas reveals deep rifts in the Lubavitcher community between officials and those who see the Rebbe as the messiah
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