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Florida Prisons To Begin Kosher Food Program On Trial Basis

By Howard M. Friedman

JTA reported yesterday that Florida Governor Charlie Crist has recently signed a directive ordering the state Department of Corrections to provide a kosher food plan for state prison inmates.  A release last month from the Aleph Institute, a Chabad group that serves the needs of Jewish prisoners, says it will begin a 6-month trial of the program at a unit of the South Florida Reception Center in Miami. That trial begins August 16. In 2007, the state ended its previous Jewish Dietary Accommodation program in its prisons. (See prior posting.) [Thanks to Joel Katz (Relig. & State in Israel) for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).