This sounds like a bad novel:
More than two-dozen Hasidic men are in a holy mess after allegedly breaking into a Brooklyn synagogue, apparently as part of an ongoing power struggle among warring Satmar sects.
Cops arrested 26 men who allegedly celebrated a holy day Tuesday by burglarizing a reading room at Yetev Lev Bikur Cholim on Rodney Street in Williamsburg.
The men, ages 18 to 25, destroyed a podium, scattered papers and smashed three walls on the holiday of Shmini Atzeret, officials said.
When cops arrived, the men were sitting on the floor, laughing and smoking cigarettes, sources said. It was unclear if they were drunk.