From: hem@col400.att.com (Hillel E. Markowitz)
Subject: Re: Feld Fraud?
Originator: news@cbnewsf.cb.att.com
Organization: AT&T Federal Systems
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:50:36 GMT

In article <FY.92Dec24120526@hardwick.lucid.com> fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec24.172950.14625@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David
>Sternlight) writes: 
>
>> I am starting to become suspicious of this affair. I know something
>> about current U.S. Jails, and the claim that the Felds have spent the
>> past month shackled hand and foot, in a Jail in Santa Clara,
>> California to the extent that they cannot lay tefillin simply doesn't
>> compute.
>
>I agree.  I had to visit a friend who presumably was in the same Santa
>Clara prison that these guys are in.  My friend was charged with
>assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, certainly as serious a
>crime as attempted murder.
>
>And while the conditions weren't exactly what I'd call hospitable, my
>friend showed no signs of being shackled or badly mistreated.
>
>These guys are locked up in the middle of Silicon Valley.  Surely either
>someone with net access has visited them in jail, or someone with net
>access knows someone whose visited them, and can transcribe a brief
>statement. 
>
>I really don't want to hear any more statements "I heard that. . . " or
>"Someone in my minyan says that . . ."  I don't know if such statements
>count as Lashon Hara, but they should.
>
>-- Frank Yellin
>   fy@lucid.com

Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:31:50 -0500
Reply-To:     "J. Y. Yosh Mantinband" <cm406@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
From:         "J. Y. Yosh Mantinband" <cm406@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      How the Felds are faring

I received the following notes from people in the San Jose area.  I
am re-posting these to the list because I think there are people who
will want to know how the Felds are faring.  I have omitted
the original authors' names and other identifying info to protect
their privacy since I am re-posting at my initiative.

> I saw your note about the Felds.  I am a member of the local
> community and
> they are getting a lot of support here.  Rabbi Levin of Chabad in Palo
> Alto is the Jewish "chaplain" for the jail where they are held and he
> has organized daily visits to them to help them daven (they are both
> shackled hand and foot and can't put on tefillin themselves) and to
> light candles for Chanukah. My husband went Saturday night and I know
> others have done it every night since.
>
> =============================================================================
>
> I did see the Feld Brothers Monday night (12/21/92).  <---> and I
> lit Chanuka candles for them, one at a time since they reside on
> different floors in the prison.  I lit for Yisrael and <---> lit for
> Avraham.  We waited the full half hour for the candles to burn which
> gave us a chance to talk to the Feld Brothers and get know them. Avraham
> seemed to be in better spirits then Yisrael, but not knowing them, It
> could have been their personalities.  I believe that Avraham mentioned
> that they were living on fruits and vegetables.  I also heard that Rabbi
> Levin was trying to arrange Kosher food for them.  I called Rabbi Levin
> and left a message to have him call me, as soon as I have an update
> I will let you know.  Most of the conversation we had with the Felds
> centered around their families and lives in Israel and they asked about
> us and our lives in San Jose.  I left the prison finding it hard to
> believe that they have been arrested.
-- 
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