¶ Joseph Berger fills in the background on the other night’s fire story. The fire itself, it seems, will be ruled accidental, which is good to hear. And the building is insured. We knew that Kehilath Jeshurun and its affiliated Ramaz school had lost a lot of money to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, but we didn’t know about the rabbinical dynasty that has overseen the synagogue since 1906 (Hankel Lookstein, the incumbent, is the great-grandson of Moses Zevulun Margolies, the rabbi whose initials gave the school its name). We wish the congregation a speedy recovery. 

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