Steven Hayes, who was convicted in the 2007 murder of a woman and her two daughters, accused the state’s Department of Corrections of not serving him kosher food.
The rabbi’s Nov. 21 blog post calling Arabs in the Land of Israel the enemy has prompted concern of negative fallout — including heightened security risks — at his Teaneck synagogue, Congregation Bnai Yeshurun.
The rabbinical students were hosted at the Knesset by Masorti’s Jewish Pluralism Watch, an organization that monitors religion and state issues in Israel.