prison

Passage to Freedom

How futile is speech against a cruel government that has confined human beings in unsanitary, overcrowded prisons, in less humane conditions than abandoned pets in animal shelters?

Finding Jewish Life in Unexpected Places

I recently spent two weeks in Philadelphia participating in a two week seminar as part of my Museum Studies masters ...

Remembering Hebrew School in Iranian Prison

I struggled to remember ever scrap of Judaism that I could. My family is secular. My mother feels uncomfortable in ...

Jews Don’t Celebrate Christmas (Except in Prison in the Islam Republic of Iran)

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

Empathy for a Convicted Aryan Brotherhood Killer

If we fail to treat others, even the worst among them, humanely, than it is we who ceed the ‘moral ...

When 50 Happens to Good People: Part Two

Ok, so I hadn’t done time in prison, I’d just spent one day there. I’d just covered what was believed ...