The Committee to Bring Jonathan Home has announced another Torah lecture - the 5th in a series - in honor of Jonathan Pollard. The class will be delivered by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh on May 15 at 8:15 PM at the Yeshurun Synagogue in central Jerusalem.
Jonathan Pollard is now in his 17th year of a prison sentence in the U.S. for spying for Israel - a crime that carries an average punishment of 2-4 years. Yehoshua Steinberg of the Committee to Bring Jonathan Home recently explained, \"It may seem strange to continue with the struggle for a single individual at a time of such national agony. In truth, quite the opposite is true. [Jonathan\'s wife] Esther was exactly on the mark [when she said that] Klal Yisrael\'s tragedies precisely mirror Jonathan\'s suffering.\" The reference was to the following comment by Esther Pollard:
\"One of the reasons that Israel is experiencing such anguish in so many areas - and I believe this with all my heart - is that successive administrations in Israel have been permitted to abandon individual Jews. The minute the nation allows the government to abandon even one Jew, every Jew is at risk...\"
Other speakers in this series have included Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu, Moti Elon, Yosef Mendelevitch, and Mordechai Noigershall.
Jonathan Pollard is now in his 17th year of a prison sentence in the U.S. for spying for Israel - a crime that carries an average punishment of 2-4 years. Yehoshua Steinberg of the Committee to Bring Jonathan Home recently explained, \"It may seem strange to continue with the struggle for a single individual at a time of such national agony. In truth, quite the opposite is true. [Jonathan\'s wife] Esther was exactly on the mark [when she said that] Klal Yisrael\'s tragedies precisely mirror Jonathan\'s suffering.\" The reference was to the following comment by Esther Pollard:
\"One of the reasons that Israel is experiencing such anguish in so many areas - and I believe this with all my heart - is that successive administrations in Israel have been permitted to abandon individual Jews. The minute the nation allows the government to abandon even one Jew, every Jew is at risk...\"
Other speakers in this series have included Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu, Moti Elon, Yosef Mendelevitch, and Mordechai Noigershall.