Jewish prisoners demand better food
Nevada inmates receiving kosher meals complain about low quality and lack of nutritional value
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Rabbinic Caucus questions move, says non-Christian inmates will be negatively affected
View ArticleJewish Israeli seeks ‘pardon’ like Palestinian prisoners
Ami Popper, who killed 7 Gazans in the 1990s, seeks release under same criteria being applied to long-term Palestinian incarcerees
View ArticleJonathan Pollard begins 29th year in US prison
Consecutive American presidents refuse to release former US Navy intelligence analyst who spied for Israel
View ArticleFlorida prison services ordered to provide kosher meals
A US federal judge rules Florida Department of Corrections must reinstitute kosher food by July 1
View ArticleRevise kippah rules, ACLU tells Wyoming prison services
Orthodox prisoner able to wear skullcap in cell only, due to ‘security concerns’
View ArticleAt Sobibor: building in the heart of a death camp
A controversial plan for a visitor center and memorial disrupts ongoing archeological digs. Is there still time — or a need — to uncover the past?
View ArticleOrthodox groups file briefs in US prison observance cases
One case tackles the issue of kosher meals for Jewish inmates, another moves to allow a Muslim man to grow his beard
View ArticleUS, Cuba discuss Alan Gross, migration in Washington
State Department statement calls talks routine with no indicatation of change in policy
View ArticleChocolate in Prison
Celebrating Sukkot at the Indiana State Prison inspired some unexpected camaraderie among the inmates
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Back in Maryland Jewish community and awaiting first grandchild, US aid worker says he never gave up hope during 5-year incarceration
View ArticleUS, Iran to ‘deepen’ coordination in search for Jewish American
Obama vows Washington will not rest until CIA contractor Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for nearly nine years, is found
View ArticleMadoff: ABC miniseries ‘absurd mischaracterization’
In email riddled with spelling mistakes, Ponzi schemer objects to show; says he has ‘never been one to turn the other cheek’
View ArticleTexas death-row inmate wraps tefillin for first time
Jedidiah Murphy, born Jewish but raised in foster homes, convicted in 2001 for murder of 79-year-old woman
View ArticleUS Supreme Court turns down Jewish inmate’s discrimination case
Prison officials in North Carolina deny Israel Ben-Levi right to form prayer group in what dissenting justice calls ‘disappointing’ indifference
View ArticleIn first, female prisoners in Russia get Jewish prayer space
House of worship opened by Saint Petersberg chief rabbi and deputy head of federal prisons service
View ArticleFlorida appeals court-ordered kosher prison meals
State asks for permission to cut back $12.3 million per year kosher food program amid budget constraints
View ArticleSharansky to talk about Russia, faith and freedom at live interview in Jerusalem
Jewish Agency chairman and former Prisoner of Zion is May 7 guest in ToI series of English events
View ArticleIdaho inmates sue state prison service for kosher food
Suit filed by ACLU says lack of meal option for Jewish prisoners a violation of their constitutional rights
View ArticleAlan Gross, after spending 5 years in a Cuban prison, is starting over in Israel
Languishing in a Havana jail, the Jewish US contractor developed a habit for the island's famed cigars. Now his favorite pastime is walking from his Tel Aviv home to the Carmel Market and Jaffa
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