Rescuing the Orange Street Torah Ark: A Story of Jewish Chelsea

Created for the Orange Street Shul in Chelsea, Massachusetts, which closed in 1999, Samuel Katz’s Torah ark survived almost certain destruction and found a new home in the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s first-ever Judaica gallery. Learn more about this splendidly carved ritual object, the life of the man who made it, and the wider story of Chelsea’s Jewish immigrant population in the first part of the 20th century.