It started with diggers so desperate to avoid detection that they smuggled out the soil and rubble in their pockets, just like in Hollywood film The Shawshank Redemption. Only this was no prison break-out, but a synagogue .It ended this week with members of a New York Hasidic Jewish community arrested and charged over a 60ft secret tunnel that connected to a historic synagogue. It came as extraordinary scenes went viral online of the group skirmishing with New York police in the synagogue.The leaders of the synagogue, which are the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, only discovered the tunnel in recent weeks - reportedly after neighbours complained of hearing people speaking Yiddish under their floors. They called in a cement lorry on Monday to fill in the hole.
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