From the Director
Rabbi Mendel S.
"People ask how I can go in there week after week. I tell them: when God called, Abraham didn't ask where or why. He said Hineni — Here I am. That's the whole job."
For more than twelve years, Rabbi Mendel has walked the corridors of Rikers Island carrying nothing but presence and a refusal to let anyone be forgotten. What began as a single weekly visit has grown into a full chaplaincy — and the promise that the door is never closed.
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