KIRYAS
JOEL, N.Y. — In a place where young boys spend their days hunched over
volumes of Torah and Talmud, delving into timeless stories and precepts
in an ancient singsong, the scene was incongruous.
Dozens
of agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and county law
enforcement officers — more than 50 by the count of officials in this Hasidic village
about 50 miles northwest of Manhattan — converged on a four-story brick
yeshiva here on Thursday, some armed with guns, others carrying
crowbars, as helicopters whirred overhead. According to parents of
children at the school, the authorities took away boxes filled with
computers, office files and security-camera videos.
