AGUDAS ACHIM MEMBERS TRY AGAIN TO OPEN THE SHUL
Members of Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation in Chicago have been plagued with an interminable dispute leading to ongoing litigation, suffer from a lack of funds, and need badly to repair a dilapidated building cited in the past for code violations.
Yet the congregation's determined rabbi, Philip Lefkowitz, and devoted members are hoping to overcome past plagues and to open the facility for services for the last days of Passover, April 25-26.
The dispute between Steven Turk, and Rabbi Lefkowitz and the synagogue, extensively covered in these pages, has shuttered the synagogue since 2008.
In better times, Rabbi Lefkowitz was leading seders at the synagogue conducted in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Russian. One time, 2006, Gov. Rod BIagojevjch was in attendance (Jewish Star, April 7, 2006).
Rabbi Lefkowitz told the Jewish Star that fundraising will be possible once the synagogue is re-opened.
[Author Affiliation]
By DOUGUS WERTHEIMER
EDITOR
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