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Jailed Jesus fights for right to kosher food

January 17, 2012 11:26

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

A Californian prisoner called Jesus is fighting for the right to be served kosher meals.

Margarito Jesus Garcia is serving a 15 year sentence for second degree murder.

Born a Catholic, he claims he has been practising Messianic Judaism for two years and that he should therefore be given kosher food. The prison's Jewish chaplain has dismissed his newfound faith as insincerely held.

But this week justices at the California Third District Court of Appeals ruled that if the prison refused then it would be violating Garcia's rights.

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