Rabbis in Saint Petersburg open Russia’s first prison Jewish prayer space for women.
The Jewish house of worship in the Number 2 Penal Colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has a capacity of 20 worshipers, the news site www.jewish.ru reports.
Services in the space will be led out of St. Petersburg by Rabbi Ifrah Abramov.
“Convicts of Jewish faith received with joy at the news about the opening of a prayer room in the colony,” he says.
The opening ceremony Tuesday was attended by the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Valery Nikolaev, and the chief rabbi of St. Petersburg, Menachem Mendel Pevzner, as well as Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, who works with prisoners across Russia.
Elsewhere in Russia, many prisons for men have prayer spaces and synagogues.
— JTA
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