Services for the Passover holidays were held here by Rabbi Israel J. Sarasohn, Jewish chaplain, in the United States Penitentiary and annex during the first two nights of the festival Louis Kranitz, of St. Joseph, Mo., first vice-president of District No. 2, B’nai B’rith, addressed the prisoners at a penitentiary seder.
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