Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., extended last week’s temporary restraining order against the Russian government in a preliminary injunction issued this week in connection with Agudas Chasidei Chabad’s attempts to protect and ultimately transfer a collection of holy Jewish manuscripts and books held by the Russian State Military Archives in Moscow.

In the new order, which concerns a portion of the library belonging to the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, that turned up last year in Jerusalem, Lamberth restrains Russia from “taking any steps that would, in any way shape or form, compromise or injure the existence or integrity” of the collection.

He also gave Russia and Agudas Chasidei Chabad 60 days to submit plans to maintain the collection’s integrity. …