After at least 15 denials of their request for kosher meals, two Jewish detainees were told the jail would bring a rabbi to “evaluate whether they were Jewish.” No rabbi visited, according to a lawsuit filed by ACLU against the D.C. Dept. of Corrections.
unlawfully denied kosher meals to Benjamin and other Jewish people detained without proof of their religion.The suit said the jail’s external religious verification process requires a synagogue or rabbi to confirm a person’s Jewish faith, or a letter of conversion, before accommodating a kosher diet. This places “an excessive and undue burden on these individuals,” and prevents them from “engaging in an important component of exercising their religion,” the ACLU of D.C. said in a news release.
“My Jewish faith is one of the few things that has sustained me during this tough time in my life while I’ve been locked up,” Benjamin said in the news release from the ACLU. “It’s discriminatory and wrong for Reverend Colbert and Chaplain Allen, who are people of faith themselves, to deny me the opportunity to keep kosher by imposing proof requirements that don’t apply to people of other religions.
“For many Jewish people, eating “kosher” or “fit” foods is both a commandment from God and a way to feel connected to Judaism during everyday life,” the complaint said.According to the complaint, Benjamin and other Jewish individuals requesting kosher meals were not aware of any Christian or Muslim people detained having to provide external verification of their religion to receive accommodations.
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