Synagogue Faction Allegedly Wrecks School

The clash between warring factions of the Satmar Chasidim in Williamsburg just got more heated, with 26 people arrested for wreaking havoc inside a school adjacent to a synagogue.
"It looked like a hurricane came through there," a police source said. "Everything was just busted up and thrown around."
The school was stormed by the suspects Tuesday night, by peolpe who walked into the Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue on Rodney Street, then broke down a wall to access the school affiliated with the synagogue and started breaking and throwing anything they could get their hands on, the source said.
The suspects were charged with burglary, criminal mischief and petty larceny.
The incident was clearly a by-product of the wild confrontation earlier Tuesday in which more than a hundred cops were called to the synagogue to quell a disturbance involving more than 1,000 worshipers, police said.
Some at the synagogue Wednesday tried to downplay the burglary incident, saying the 26 men were simply there watching TV and smoking cigarettes.
Police sources, however, said it appears those arrested are affiliated with Aaron Teitelbaum, the leader of a Satmar congregation in upstate Kiryas Yoel.
Scott Mollen, lawyer for Zalman's supporters, said there is no doubt the suspects were from Orange County.
"They tried to give impression to people they were only in the reading room ... " Mollen said. "Only someone who believes in Alice in Wonderland and is willing to suspend common sense and reality would believe New York City policemen would arrest people for reading.