Arrests at Chabad Synagogue After Students Thwart Filling Secret Tunnel

Nine rabbinical students were arrested Monday (Jan. 8) for thwarting the filling of a tunnel illegally dug through the walls of a synagogue below the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement International’s headquarters into an adjacent building. Videos shared on social media show clashes between the students and New York police officers as they force some individuals wearing traditional Hasidic garb out of a breach in the wall. Another clip shows a man coming out of a sidewalk sewer drain said to be connected to the underground passage.