I am following the story about the rival Hasidic groups in New York City.

One of them wants to put up a plaque at sect headqquarters in Brooklyn,

commemorating the charismatic sect leader, Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, who

died in 1994. The other group thinks this is sacrilege because the Rbbe was

in fact the Messiah, and has not really died at all. Push has come to

shove, and arrests have been made. Money quote (from today’s NY Post story ):

“A lawyer for one of the men explained that the group was protecting the

cornerstone, which is considered sacred because Schneerson once touched it.

’His choice is: does he go against the rule of God or does he go against the

rule of man,’ said Michael Kusevitsky.”

Made me think of Antigone.