Rabbinical students Mendel Leverton and Zalman Kaplan on their way to celebrate Chanukah with inmates at the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio.
Chanukah Comes to the Incarcerated and Their Families
Chanukah isn’t over yet, and rabbinical students Mendel Leverton and Zalman Kaplan have already covered nearly 1,000 miles of Ohio this week. The purpose of their roadtrip? Visiting Jewish inmates across the state, bringing the light and joy of Chanukah into society’s darkest corner: the prison system.
