Author Topic: JACOB OSTREICHER, CHEREDI JEW- POLITICAL PRISONER IN BOLIVIA  (Read 469 times)

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Offline Dayenu

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Is anybody aware of a Brooklyn Charedi Jew, Jacob Ostreicher, imprisoned in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in horrendous conditions with no charges against him by Communist Indian President Evo Morales for 11 months? Sen. Chuck Schumer is helping.  It is unclear if Secy. of State  Hillary Clinton is helping but she may be in a quiet way.  He went to the Communist nation to run a rice factory.  This is one of the many articles on the internet about him.  He needs our help:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/12/world/americas/bolivia-american-hunger-strike/index.html
there is a webpage: http://freejacobnow.com/intro.html
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Re: JACOB OSTREICHER, CHEREDI JEW- POLITICAL PRISONER IN BOLIVIA
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 04:03:07 PM »
Shalom Dayenu,

I have not heard of this till you brought it up. From the initial reports I see it seems you are correct. He is suffering a great injustice at the hands of wicked edomites. It is a mitzvah for every Jew to work to secure the release of Jews being held by non-Jewish tyrants. We cannot allow this religious Jew to suffer any more.

We must get the word out about his situation. Here is a report from ABC news on his situation:

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
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Re: JACOB OSTREICHER, CHEREDI JEW- POLITICAL PRISONER IN BOLIVIA
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 04:12:53 PM »
Here is a link to a 'petition' to the white house to express our desire to free Jacob from his bolivian hell...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/exercise-powers-vested-you-see-it-jacob-ostreicher-us-citizen-freed-bolivia/RB4XXzyb
You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14