Palestinian prisoners launch hunger strike
Jewish Journal
April 17, 2012
At least 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have launched an open-ended hunger strike.
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Palestinians in Israeli jails set to launch hunger strike
Jewish Journal
April 16, 2012
More than 1,600 Palestinians in Israeli jails reportedly are set to launch a hunger strike on what is called Palestinian Prisoners Day.
Gross visited Cuba at least five times, court document says
Jewish Journal
January 19, 2012
Jailed American Jewish contractor Alan Gross visited Cuba at least five times in one year to set up wireless Internet connections, according to a report citing leaked court documents.
Holocaust fund scammer gets a year in slammer
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2011
A Russian Jewish immigrant was sentenced to a year and a day in jail for scamming thousands from a fund benefiting Holocaust victims.
Prosecutors appeal Demjanjuk’s release from jail
Jewish Journal
May 16, 2011
Munich state prosecutors appealed a district court\’s decision to release convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk from prison pending his appeal. Monday\’s appeal of Demjanjuk\’s release, following his conviction on war crimes on May 12, also appealed the five-year sentence handed down that day for being too lenient. The prosecutors\’ reasons will be presented in writing and only then released to the public, according to a spokesperson for the Munich District II court, which found Demjanjuk, 91, guilty as an accessory to nearly 28,000 murders in the Nazi death camp Sobibor in occupied Poland in 1943.
This matzah is kept under lock and key. So are the people who will eat it.
Jonah Lowenfeld
April 13, 2011
A few weeks before Passover, there was a moment when Shirley Friedman looked worried that there might not be enough food for everybody. Friedman, who calls herself “a full-time grandmother,” is expecting to feed three dozen people over the first two nights of Passover at her table at home — but on that Thursday morning, she wasn’t worrying about a problem that could be solved by another trip to the supermarket.
Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav receives seven-year prison sentence
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2011
Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, who was found guilty of rape and sexual assault, was sentenced to seven years in jail and ordered to pay compensation to two of his victims.
Gross marks year in Cuban jail
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2010
Alan Gross, a contractor that the U.S. State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews, marked a year in a Cuban jail. Cuban authorities detained Gross on Dec, 3 2009 on his way out of the country. Gross\’ family and State Department officials says he was in the country on a U.S. Agency for International Development contract to help the country\’s Jewish community, numbering about 1,500, to communicate with other Jewish communities through the Internet.
Inmates’ rights were violated on kosher meals, judge rules
Jewish Journal
November 8, 2010
The Indiana Department of Corrections violated federal law when it substituted vegan meals for kosher for its inmates, a federal judge ruled.
Segregated school affair: Fathers arrive in jail, mothers fail to show
Jewish Journal
June 17, 2010
Thirty five men, fathers to Ashkenazi girls attending an illegally segregated school in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel, arrived at the Ma\’asiyahu prison Thursday evening to serve a two-week sentence.
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