A serial burglar who racked up 17 previous arrests stole dough out of a Brooklyn synagogue and then used the subway tracks for his unsuccessful escape route, police said Wednesday.

Career criminal Arthur Jack, 55, crept into Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov and snatched $285 from a locked donation box around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday near 15th Avenue and 48th Street in Borough Park, according to cops.

Jack then fled but was tailed for more than half a mile by eagle-eyed witnesses who were inside the synagogue at the time of the crime, the NYPD said.

Serial burglar Arthur Jack attempted to steal money out of a donation box at Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Google Maps

The career criminal jumped on elevated train tracks on the 50th Street D line in a despera

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