{"id":9143,"date":"2009-06-12T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2009-06-12T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:50:07","slug":"the-rabbis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9143","title":{"rendered":"The Rabbis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06122009\/news\/regionalnews\/rabbis_club_kept_em_well_fed__comfy_173860.htm\">From the New York Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The lower Manhattan lockup known as the Tombs was like a &quot;private club&quot; for a  group of Orthodox Jewish jailbirds, whose politically connected prison-chaplain  rabbi regularly treated them to feasts of roast beef, salmon and chicken with  all the trimmings, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p jquery1244817002003=\"11\">Rabbi Leib Glanz &#8212; the city jail chaplain suspended  Wednesday for organizing a 60-guest bar mitzvah in the jail for an inmate&#8217;s son  &#8212; also ensured that those &quot;chosen few&quot; inmates awaited trial there instead of  at the more dangerous Rikers Island, according to a bombshell correction  officers&#8217; memo, a copy of which was provided to The Post.<\/p>\n<p jquery1244817002003=\"12\">&quot;The outlandish and outrageous things that the rabbi  is allowed to do in the facility have gotten beyond words and belief,&quot; the memo  says. &quot;When it comes to Rabbi Glanz, it would [seem] that the Jewish inmates are  not in jail but in a private club reserved just for them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p jquery1244817002003=\"13\">&quot;The inmates are untouchable,&quot; the memo added. &quot;When  it comes to the Jewish inmates, all rules are put aside.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post: The lower Manhattan lockup known as the Tombs was like a &quot;private club&quot; for a group of Orthodox Jewish jailbirds, whose politically connected prison-chaplain rabbi regularly treated them to feasts of roast beef, salmon and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[30450,17966,17965,17968,1641,17967],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rabbis","tag-bar-mitzvah","tag-jail-chaplain","tag-jewish-inmates","tag-lower-manhattan","tag-new-york-post","tag-prison-chaplain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}