News Links Morning Reads: Bus Driver Charged, East Sixth Street Synagogue’s Ark, Sammy’s Roumanian By Ed Litvak - September 24, 2014 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinReddIt Bus driver Jinli Zhao of Flushing has been charged in connection with that deadly crash in Delaware Sunday. Zhao works for a Chinatown-based bus operator (Channel 4). The historic ark from Anshei Meseritz, the East Village synagogue that’s being redeveloped, now sits in St. Paul’s Chapel on Wall Street. It’s in the safe-keeping of the Tamid Congregation, which uses the church for services. Members of the Lower East Side community are happy the ark has found a new home but lament the fact that it’s been removed from the doomed synagogue on East 6th Street (WSJ-subscription required). Pete Wells reviews Sammy’s Roumanian, “the most wonderful terrible restaurant in New York.” In spite of its flaws, he writes, “Sammy’s is still loudly, raucously, endlessly, embracingly Jewish, a permanent underground bar mitzvah where Gentiles can act like Jews and Jews can act like themselves.” (NYT). The spirit of the defunct City Opera was once again alive at the Whitebox Art Center on the Lower East Side (NYT).
