Hillel hosts annual Global Justice Shabbat with focus on prison reform
By Jenna Pierson
Staff writer
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Maryland Hillel hosted its seventh annual Global Justice Shabbat Friday night March 29th on the topic of prison reform.
The event consisted of a Shabbat dinner with a speech and Q&A session by former New York City Police Department Commissioner and convicted felon Bernard ...
Maryland Hillel students conduct Yom Kippur services for prison inmates
By Jack Wisniewski
Staff writer
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Zach Dicker left Maryland Hillel around 12 p.m. Tuesday to ensure that he would arrive at the Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg, Virginia before the start of Yom Kippur.
A senior finance major, Dicker drove two and a half hours with five other students to the prison so ...