Inspiring People
What Men In Jail Can Teach Us About Joy
Behind the walls of New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility, prisoners are learning valuable lessons about spirituality and joy.
David Evan Markus is senior builder for Bayit, co-rabbi of Temple Beth El of City Island (New York), rabbinics faculty at the Academy for Jewish Religion – New York, and spiritual direction faculty and past Board co-chair for ALEPH. By day he presides as judicial referee in New York Supreme Court, 9th Judicial District, as North America's only pulpit rabbi also to hold full-time public office.
Behind the walls of New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility, prisoners are learning valuable lessons about spirituality and joy.
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