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| Chaplain prison resigns over barmitzvah |
| By jta.org |
| Published: 06/17/2009 |
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A New York City Corrections Department official and a prison chaplain have resigned in the wake of a lavish bar mitzvah held in prison. The department’s bureau chief for facility operations, Peter Curcio, who allegedly approved the bar mitzvah for inmate Tuvia Stern's son, submitted his resignation Monday, The New York Times reported. Curcio told the New York Post Tuesday, the day after his resignation, that head chaplain Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil signed off on the bar mitzvah. On Tuesday, Rabbi Leib Glanz, a chaplain for city jails who arranged the bar mitzvah, also resigned over the scandal, the New York Post reported. Glanz was in the middle of a two-week suspension over the scandal when he announced his resignation. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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