by Jill Kassander for the Jewish Light
Rabbinic students Michael Kind (left) and Zalman Medalie (right) prepare materials with Rabbi Yosef Landa, director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis at Chabad's Lazaroff Center on Delmar. Chabad works with Aleph Institute to organize visits by rabbinic students to Jewish inmates in jails around the country. Kind and Medalie have been working since the summer to visit inmates in prisons in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Photo: Jill Kassander
“Yet connecting with them goes to our core idea of a spark of Jewishness being in every single Jew,” said Rabbi Yosef Landa, Regional Director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis.
Chabad partners with Aleph to visit Jews in prison
by Jill Kassander for the Jewish Light
Rabbinic students Michael Kind (left) and Zalman Medalie (right) prepare materials with Rabbi Yosef Landa, director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis at Chabad’s Lazaroff Center on Delmar. Chabad works with Aleph Institute to organize visits by rabbinic students to Jewish inmates in jails around the country. Kind and Medalie have been working since the summer to visit inmates in prisons in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Photo: Jill Kassander
ST LOUIS, MO — They are the forgotten Jews: Jews in prison. Visiting them is not the prettiest work or the most glamorous rabbinic responsibility.
“Yet connecting with them goes to our core idea of a spark of Jewishness being in every single Jew,” said Rabbi Yosef Landa, Regional Director of Chabad of Greater St. Louis.
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