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Call for details on Leasing or Financing the New Acura of your choice ACURA OF TROY 'YOUR PRECISION TEAM ACURA DEALER" In the Troy Motor Mall (810) 643-0900 Find It All In The Jewish News Classifieds Call 354-5959 Prisons Try To Snuff Lights Of Freedom DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER erhaps fearing some in- mates might burn the can- dle at both ends, the Michigan Department of Corrections quietly enacted a ban early last month on using real can- dles during prison Chanukah ser- vices. But the candle ban sparked a brushfire of protest from Jewish inmate advocacy groups, leading to a quick reversal only days be- fore Chanukah began. "It was a united effort by the Jewish community, with all these groups hitting the Department of Corrections at once," crowed Rab- bi Herschel Fireman of Oak Park, a volunteer prison chaplain who helped lead the protest. The controversy, which smol- dered and was then extinguished within days, underscores the ten- sion that sometimes arises be- tween the right of prisoners to freely practice religion and the in- terest of corrections officials in keeping prison grounds free of weapons and contraband. According to Rabbi Finman, the dispute stemmed from the prac- tice of some wardens in the state' of severely restricting or even ban- ning Chanukah celebrations. As a result, Rabbi Finman and other chaplains asked corrections officials to enact a single, statewide policy regarding Chanukah services. What they got was a memo- randum, dated Dec. 7, allowing Chanukah services but expressly forbidding candles and open flames. "The candles on the meno- rah must be electric or battery powered," the decree said. An ac- companying letter cited "fire-safe- ty regulations" as the reason. "Having a bunch of prisoners around open flames struck Deputy Director (Dan) Bolden as pretty dangerous," prison spokesperson Gail Light explained. But that angered a group of Jewish prison advocacy groups with ties to the Lubavitch move- ment. On Dec. 14, three days before the start of Chanukah, a Florida- based group known as the Aleph Institute faxed a letter to prison officials protesting the policy. That same day, the Lubavitch Foundation in Farmington Hills p , faxed its own protests to Gov. John Engler asking him to inter- cede. The American Jewish Con- gress and the American Jewish Committee were also involved, said Aleph Director Isaac Jaroslawicz. One day later, the candle ban was repealed, at least for now. Prison officials announced can- dles could be used during Chanukah, but only by rabbis or other civilians leading the service. "Candles must not be in the pos- session of prisoners at any time," the decree said. The turnabout was so swift, G- 017. Engler did not have time to intervene. Rabbi Levi Shemtov, a volun- teer prison chaplain who is with the Lubavitch Foundation, said the dispute is part of a broader ef- fort by corrections officials to clamp down on inmates' rights. His colleague, Rabbi Yitzchak Kagan, added that prisons in oth- er states routinely allow "open flame" candles during Chanukah. Mr. Jaroslawicz, of the Aleph Institute, said ignorance of Jew- ish tradition was probably to blame. "In many prisons," he said, "there are 500 white supremacists on one side, 500 black Muslims on the other, and five Jews caught in the middle." Ms. Light, of the Michigan cor- rections department, said religious disputes crop up fairly frequently. In one facility in northern Michi- gan, officials permitted a sweat lodge to be installed after lobbying by Native American prisoners. Rarely do such controversies involve Jewish inmates. There are only 51 people who identify them- selves as Jews among the state's 40,000 inmates. Of course, some religious com- plaints are taken more seriously than others. Prisoners have been known to use religious conviction as a pretext for receiving special privileges, Ms. Light said. It is up to prison officials to separate the pious from the troublemakers. She recalled one group of in- mates who declared that its reli- gion required them to eat sirloin steak and drink Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry. "We had some problems with that," she noted. ❑ Correction Karen Spector and Maxine Weinberg have opened Salon Sydney in Birmingham. A Kudos and Memos announcement on Dec. 29 incorrectly stated that Ms. Weinberg was formerly with Travel Max. She remains with Travel Max.