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The World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and is often simply referred to as 770. [1] The synagogue, located under 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway, has been subject to a dispute between the Agudas Chasidei Chabad (the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement) and the Gabbaim, who are associated ...
770 Eastern Parkway (Yiddish: 770 איסטערן פארקוויי), also known as "770" ("Seven Seventy"), is the street address of the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The building is the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch world movement ...
A smaller synagogue remains in use at 770 Eastern Parkway. Another building, on the original structure’s west side at 760 Eastern Parkway, is now a Chabad library.
In 2010, a New York judge ruled in favor of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, deciding over an ownership dispute between the organization and the Gabbayim of the synagogue housed at 770 Eastern Parkway. The court ordered the Gabbayim to deliver possession of the premises of 770 Eastern Parkway to Agudas Chasidei Chabad.
I must comment on a number of inaccuracies in this article. As I see, the author takes great pride in the article I will post my comments here. 1. The building “770” is not on the corner of Kingston and Eastern Parkway. The corner buildings were purchased 25 years after the purchase of the original building. 2.
After the outbreak of World War II, he moved the center of the movement to Brooklyn, New York, in the United States, where the Rebbe lived on 770 Eastern Parkway until the end of his life. Between 1951 and 1994, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson transformed the movement into one of the most widespread Jewish movements in the world.
The first major development on Eastern Parkway, at the northwest corner with Utica Avenue, did not commence until 1887; the Eastern Parkway Improvement Association was established at that time. [78] The next year, Brooklyn park commissioners reported that 279 of the 1,014 land lots north of the parkway had been sold, though none of the land to ...
The yeshiva was first located within the Chabad world headquarters building at 770 Eastern Parkway before moving to its present location at 824 Eastern Parkway following growing enrolment. [ 2 ] The yeshiva is a branch of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE).