This week it was revealed that orthodox jews are digging tunnels underneath of a Brooklyn synagogue.

From the tunnels they removed apparently blood-stained mattresses and a stroller.

Obviously, we don’t want to jump to conclusions, but this looks very bad.

There are videos of the mattress and the stroller and men climbing out of underground passages outside of the

In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word mitzvah (/ˈmɪtsvə/; Hebrew: מִצְוָה, mīṣvā [mit͡sˈva], plural מִצְווֹת mīṣvōt [mit͡sˈvot]; "commandment") refers to a commandment commanded by God to be performed as a religious duty. Jewish law (halakha) in large part consists of discussion of these commandments. According to religious tradition, there are 613 such commandments. - Wikipedia

Ultra-Orthodox Jews who speak out about these abuses are ruined and condemned to exile by their own community. Dr. Amy Neustein, a nonfundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sociologist and editor of Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals, told me the story of a series of Hasidic mothers in Brooklyn she got to know who complained that their children were being preyed on by their husbands.

Vice News Article: The Child Rape Assembly Line, 2013

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11