JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Judith Clark, the former member of radical group the Weather Underground was surprisingly denied parole April 21. Although she drove the getaway car in the 1981 Brinks robbery that left three people dead, Governor Andrew Cuomo had commuted her sentence, following The New York Times and others in praising her behavior as a prisoner. During…
“Which part of Torah do you want to study?” I asked Judy Clark at our first meeting. The gray-haired woman leaned across the table in the visitors’ room at Bedford Hills prison and answered immediately. “Isaiah.” she said. “I need to study Isaiah.” “Why?” I wondered. “Because I was just like him, believing I had…
On the drive from Manhattan, I leave the hustle and bustle of the city to steer on the winding road of the Saw Mill Parkway and make my way to Bedford Hills. I pass small villages, bike paths and beautiful canopies of trees to exit and park in the visitor’s parking lot, surrounded by high…
