LAKEVIEW — Just in time for Passover, a new Jewish storefront will have everything needed from Seder to the seventh day.
A Lakeview Jewish center is opening Chabad Lounge in an east Lakeview storefront that formerly housed Threadless.
The lounge and gift shop will have its grand opening starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at 3011 N. Broadway.
Visitors can use free wi-fi and the Jewish library. The lounge — located on the second floor — will have free coffee and a special Sunday BLT — bagels, lox and tefillin (leather boxes with scrolls of verses from the Torah).
Downstairs, Chabad will run a gift shop. Rabbi Dovid Kotlarsky will run the lounge and gift shop, and he said he's still working out the schedule. He said he hopes to eventually stay open until 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.
The gift shop will feature items like shemura matza and Seder plates for Passover, plus toys and other traditional Jewish pieces.
The downstairs level of the former Threadless store will be a Jewish gift shop. [Provided/Dovid Kotlarsky]
Chabad Lounge is accepting donated couches, recliners or Jewish books. Those with donations can email info@jewishlakeview.com or call 773-495-7127.
Chabad of Lakeview, 655 W. Irving Park Road, offers "Judaism with a smile" through programs like Hebrew school, Bat Mitzvah club and Torah study. The Chabad itself will remain open, and its six-week summer camp just relocated to The Nettelhorst School.
Threadless, a user-designed T-shirt website, closed its flagship Lakeview store in January 2014. The T-shirt designs with the most votes were sold online and in the store. CEO Jake Nickell said at the time that the company was refocusing on plans to sell shirts in established stores instead.
The Threadless store opened in fall 2007.
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