Chabad Jewish Inmate Services

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Jewish inmates are largely ignored by the Jewish community and sometimes even by their own families.

Chabad Outreach Jewish Inmate Services, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization,  provides assistance in conducting inmate religious services, counseling inmates and their families during and after incarceration, prayer books, proper Jewish
Bibles, Passover and other Jewish Holiday foods and supplies to various Texas Department Criminal Justice units, books and classes on Jewish study and history, and Jewish Reference Libraries in many TDCJ facilities. We provide services to additional lockdown facilities including Federal, County, and INS Prisons.

Our yearly budget is $56,000.

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Kindly return your response and donation to

Chabad Outreach Jewish Inmate Services
11000 Fondren B104 •Houston, TX 77096 
or Click Here to Donate

All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the law.    

Thank you for supporting Jewish inmate, helping them feel that they are not forgotten.

March 10, 2011
Adar II 4, 5771 

Dear Friend,

Jewish inmates. Passover. Often, the Jewish community and sometimes their own families simply ignore them.

More than thirty years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, issued a call to address the challenges faced by the Jewish incarcerated.

In the greater Houston and Texas area, Rabbi Ted Sanders, of blessed memory, created a Jewish Inmate and Family Support Service.

Chabad Outreach Jewish Inmate Services, a nonprofit organization, has continued Rabbi Sanders' holy efforts and expanded the programs. We provide assistance in conducting inmate religious services, counseling inmates and their families during and after incarceration, prayer books, proper Jewish Bibles, Passover supplies to TDCJ units, books and classes on Jewish study and history, and Jewish Reference Libraries in TDCJ facilities. We also service numerous lockdown Federal and County facilities.

With this in mind, Passover is one of the most difficult times. The prisons do not supply the needed kosher foods for Passover. 

Last year, with your help, we sent Inmates Passover supplies. Every Jewish inmate had the opportunity to keep the whole Passover including the Seders! Afterwards, we sent care packages of bagels, lox and cream cheese to help the inmates observe the holiday of Shavuot.

This year, the first Seder is Monday, April 18, 2011. 

We need your help! If you can contribute financially to the Passover project or any of the other projects, it would be greatly appreciated. Our yearly prison budget is $56,000. You may either send your donation to COJIS 11000 FOndren B104 Houston, TX 77096 or make your donation online by clicking here.

We thank you for your support and especially for letting the Jewish inmates know that they are not forgotten.

May you and yours enjoy a Happy and Kosher Passover!

Rabbi Dovid Goldstein - TDCJ Consulting Head Rabbi 

Rabbi Moishe Traxler - Director of Chabad Outreach

www.TexasJewishInmates.com