Two U.S. rabbis will visit Lori Berenson in her Peruvian prison. Rabbis Balfour Brickner and Josh Saltzman, along with Christian clerics, will travel to Peru this week to see the jailed American Jewish woman, according to New York’s Jewish Week. Berenson, 32, is serving a 20-year prison term after being convicted of collaborating with leftist terrorists against the Peruvian government.
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