The Forward has coverage of the split within Chabad over how to react to Disengagement:
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim gathered in New York City last week to rally community opposition to Israel's plan to dismantle settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank.
The rally, held June 23 at the movement's worldwide headquarters in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, featured Arieh Eldad, a Knesset member from the National Union Party, who is calling for massive civil disobedience to obstruct the removal of the settlers. The event was dominated by a faction of the Chabad community that believes that the movement's late rebbe or grand rabbi, Menachem M. Schneerson, who died in 1994, will return to life as the messiah.…
Within the Chabad movement, individual leaders, particularly those from the messianic faction, have been in the forefront.…
The neutral stance of the central Chabad leadership has caused anger among some movement members. They "feel like they have to dance at two weddings," said one attendee at last week's rally, speaking of the Chabad leadership. "The titular heads of the movement have basically marginalized themselves. Whether or not they're on the train, the train has left the station a long time ago and is going and going and going."
… Last week's rally in New York featured several leaders of official Chabad institutions, and was advertised as sponsored by both the Beit Din, or rabbinic court, of Crown Heights, and the local Vaad HaKohol, or community council. The council earlier had passed a resolution to adopt the Gush Katif settlement bloc in Gaza as a sister city.…
And the Vaad HaKohol's president is…