Chabad brings Tefillin, Connection to Jews Serving Prison duration - JTA
Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, isn’t strange. But it’s less familiar when the setting is prison — in that case Northern State Prison in Newark, N.J. — and the pupils are convicts. During the year, Chabad rabbinical students visit Jewish prisoners all through the United States, bringing with them tefillin, prayer books and words of hope. that summer the students visited 3,700 Jewish inmates in more than 360 prisons in 37 states.
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