Four of the defendants — Yaakov Rothchild, Yisroel Binyamin, Yerachmiel Blumenfeld and Menachem Maidanchik — declined the plea deal offered by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. They are ...

A Brooklyn judge on Monday berated a rebellious crew of Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging a secret tunnel under a prominent Crown Heights synagogue — even as four defiantly demanded a ...

What to Know Four men accused of damaging a Brooklyn synagogue during a melee that followed the discovery of a secret tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four men accused of damaging a Brooklyn synagogue during a melee that followed the discovery of a secret tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of ...

Eitan Kalmovich, a congregation member ... a group Jewish "extremist" students from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement began the work to build the tunnel, which was intended to "expand" the headquarters.