Long-awaited kosher and halal options to become available in New York state prison
A new bill guarantees religiously appropriate foods in commissaries and visiting area vending machines
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News Appeals court rules for Jewish prisoners: Let them eat cheesecake
Jewish inmates who request cheesecake for Shavuot must get it. That’s what a three-judge federal appeals court panel unanimously ruled last week in a lawsuit filed by two Jewish prisoners who held that the vegan meals the Michigan Department of Corrections served them did not fulfill their kosher dietary needs. Cheesecake was not in the…
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News As COVID-19 rages at San Quentin, a prison rabbi and activist offer comfort and support
Kat Morgan led her last Shabbat service inside San Quentin State Prison on March 13. At one point during that service, and her co-leaders divided the congregants into small groups to share things that bring them joy during darker moments. “These people are experts in resilience,” she said. “They shared gratitude for things like prayer,…
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Fast Forward Bernie Madoff, with less than 18 months to live, denied ‘compassionate release’ from prison
A federal judge denied the infamous Jewish Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff compassionate release from prison Thursday, confirming that he wants the financier to die behind bars. Judge Denny Chin, the same judge who signed off on Madoff’s 150-year sentence in 2009, said, “it was fully my intent that he live out the rest of…
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Community People say coronavirus is like prison. I can tell you: it’s not.
I live in New York City which is at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wear a face mask to walk my dog every day. People pass by and our dogs sniff each other while we chat from a social distance, and more than one dog owner has told me that they feel like…
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Community My mother was a Holocaust survivor, but she was always more worried about my happiness.
My 93-year-old mom, who survived the Holocaust, died of COVID-19 in an assisted living facility in New Jersey on April 5. I found out she was dead from a text with the words Baruch Dayan Haemet, the Jewish blessing at the time of death. Only days earlier, my nephew called to tell me she had…
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Fast Forward After White House lobbying, ICE agrees not to deport fraudster Israeli rabbi
Under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up its policy of deporting immigrant criminals upon the completion of their prison sentences. But the agency has made an exception for an Israeli rabbi who was convicted of racketeering and money laundering conspiracy, Hamodia reported Saturday night. Rabbi Mordechai Samet, a resident of the…
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