Belarus Jewish leader convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to time served

Published on March 29, 2013

Yuri Dorn, a Jewish community leader in Belarus, was convicted for tax evasion but set free after a year in jail.

Anat Kamm wants compensation from Haaretz for revealing identity

Published on February 4, 2013

Anat Kamm, who was jailed for turning classified military documents over to a reporter, is seeking compensation from Haaretz for revealing her identity.

Jailed in Israel, Marwan Barghouti says he’ll be president of Palestine

Published on December 27, 2012

Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist jailed in Israel, said he will be the president of a Palestinian state.

Jailed Gross calls for U.S. to sign pact with Cuba

Published on December 3, 2012

Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross asked the U.S. government to sign a non-belligerency pact with Cuba in an effort to obtain his release from a military hospital there.

Palestinians escalate hunger-strike in Israel jails

Published on May 11, 2012

Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention conditions.

‘Son of Sam’ denied parole for sixth time

Published on May 9, 2012

David Berkowitz, the New York serial killer known as "Son of Sam," was denied parole for a sixth time.

Jewish school teacher arrested on possession of child pornography

Published on May 4, 2012

A teacher at a Jewish elementary school in the New York area has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.

Former Palestinian hunger striker released from Israeli jail

Published on April 18, 2012

Khader Adnan, a Palestinian who went on a 63-day hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, was released from an Israeli jail to his home in the West Bank.

Palestinian prisoners launch hunger strike

Published on April 17, 2012

At least 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have launched an open-ended hunger strike.

Palestinians in Israeli jails set to launch hunger strike

Published on 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.

Alan Gross’ wife hoping Cubans reciprocate humanitarian gesture

Published on March 20, 2012

The wife of Alan Gross welcomed a judge’s decision to temporarily release a convicted Cuban spy to visit his ailing brother and said she hoped the Cuban government would grant a similar request to her husband.

Gross visited Cuba at least five times, court document says

Published on 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.

How Much Does it Cost to Hate Jews?  For John Galliano, it’s $8500.00

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 8, 2011

Holocaust fund scammer gets a year in slammer

Published on 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

Published on 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.

Protesting in the U.S.A. - A waste of time?

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 9, 2011

Passover in Prison

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 12, 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

Published on 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.

Schwarzenegger making play dates with Medvedev

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 14, 2011

Gross marks year in Cuban jail

Published on 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

Published on 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

Published on 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.

West Bank haredi parents ordered to jail

Published on June 16, 2010

Israel's Supreme Court has ordered haredi Ashkenazi parents who refused to send their daughters to school with Sephardi girls to go to jail.

Inmates Celebrate B’not Mitzvah

Published on September 9, 2009

Two women, identified as Carol and Pamela — not their real names — became b’not mitzvah on Saturday, Sept. 5. Both are inmates at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Corona, located about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The event is believed to be the first bat mitzvah to take place inside prison walls in the United States.

Bernie Madoff Reportedly Dying of Cancer

Published on August 24, 2009

Madoff, who is serving 150 years at a North Carolina federal prison after pleading guilty to swindling more than $65 billion, has been telling fellow inmate he doesn't have much longer to live.

Madoff Gets 150 Years in Prison

By JewishJournal.com
Published on June 29, 2009

The Sentencing of Bernie Madoff

By JewishJournal.com
Published on June 29, 2009

A Seder Is Not a Seder Is Not a Seder…

Published on April 2, 2009

My Passover odyssey began in 1991, when I decided to organize a community seder. It would be homemade affair in a rented room, with my children, cousins and friends creating the decorations, skits, music and conversation topics.

Arrested development: Young Jewish activists voluntarily go to jail in support of union rights

By Alex Collins-Shotwell
Published on October 5, 2006

Sarah Leiber Church and Laura Podolsky were part of a protest march that took place along Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport aimed at hotels that allegedly have been preventing employees from unionizing.

Krugel Gets 20 Years for Bomb Plot

By Jim Crogan
Published on September 29, 2005

The proceedings brought an apparent close to a case that briefly riveted national attention in the immediate wake of the terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists on Sept. 11, 2001.

Q and A With Floyd Abrams

By Howard Blume
Published on July 7, 2005

New York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail this week for refusing to reveal confidential sources. The attorney for Miller and the Times is Floyd Abrams, who spoke with The Journal about the case, about his career, and also about his new book, "Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment."

Miller faced imprisonment after the U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to hear her appeal and also an appeal by another reporter, Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine. A judge had held both reporters in contempt for not talking to the grand jury probing an alleged leak by someone in the Bush administration. The investigation centers on who may have violated federal law by disclosing the identity of a covert CIA agent. The leak of the agent's name, Valerie Plame, could have been retaliation, because it occurred shortly after Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, became a public critic of the Bush administration.

Cooper avoided jail time after agreeing to testify. He said his confidential source had, at the last moment, given him clearance to answer questions. Miller could remain in custody for as long as four months - until the grand jury completes its term.

In the interview, Abrams also talked of the Jewish perspective in his legal work, and about his role this year as an adviser to a Columbia University committee assembled following high-profile allegations of campus anti-Semitism.

World Briefs

Published on February 20, 2003

World Briefs

Five Iranian Jews Remain Jailed

By Michael J. Jordan
Published on October 31, 2002

Three Iranian Jews imprisoned on charges of spying for Israel have been released, but the last five remain in jail, contrary to earlier reports.

Sources close to the issue said Monday that Iranian authorities had granted the last five an indefinite furlough. On Wednesday, however, those sources confirmed that the reports from Iran were "disinformation."

Charismatic Rabbi Faces Charges

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on August 22, 2002

Michael Ozair is, by many accounts, charming, charismatic and an excellent teacher.

He is also in jail.

Yomtov Pleads Guilty

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on February 7, 2002

Teacher Mordechai Yomtov stood sobbing in his orange prison jumpsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court as he pleaded guilty to two counts of committing continuous sexual abuse on a minor and one count of lewd act on a minor.

Art of Imprisonment

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on July 26, 2001

Alexander Deutsch secretly painted watercolors in an Argentinian political prison after he was kidnapped, tortured and incarcerated by the paramilitary regime in the late 1970s.

Reno Skinheads Sentenced to Jail

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 14, 2000

Five skinheads who attempted to firebomb a synagogue in Reno, Nev., one year ago have been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.