As the American chapter of the book on Jonathan Pollard is coming to a close, a new, more hopeful sequel is about to be written
When Jonathan Jay Pollard picked up the phone in his home last Friday afternoon to the voice of a US parole officer informing him that the government was lifting all of his parole restrictions, this joyous — and unexpected — news of his freedom was not his only cause for gratitude.
“When Jonathan called me to let me know, he said he was thankful that they called him early enough on Friday, and that everything was done over the phone,” said his longtime confidant, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, who was the first to hear the good news after the Pollards and their lawyers. “Since he didn’t have to come down to their office late that afternoon, he was able to avoid any possible chillul Shabbos.”
The glad tidings also arrived in enough time that Pollard’s wife, Esther, could perform one more crucial melachah before the onset of Shabbos.
“Esther had the zechus of cutting the GPS tracking device off Jonathan’s wrist, under authorization, of course, from Jonathan’s parole officer,” Rabbi Lerner told Mishpacha.
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