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November 21: Pollard Free

It's official: Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying on the United States for Israel, will be released on November 21, his attorney confirmed. Full Story, Video

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But what if it's just a cruel joke
October 4, 2015 10:43 pm

What if they’re messing with his emotions, just to bully him! What if they’re doing this for “fun!”

Gottal Love CNN
July 31, 2015 4:14 pm

Wonderful news!
I just love the headline, “Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard”
Always trying to stir up controversy

finally! !!
July 30, 2015 7:00 am

bh !such great news!

Boruch Hashem
July 29, 2015 8:44 pm

MAZALTOV!

wow its about time, BARAK
July 29, 2015 3:54 pm

keeping jonathan locked up in BARRAKS…

B"h
July 29, 2015 11:12 am

Great NEWS !!! We all going out!!!

#32, his sentence was life.
July 29, 2015 10:45 am

He is not serving his full sentence; he will be released on parole once he becomes eligible, after 30 years.

#30, he did a mitzvah
July 29, 2015 10:43 am

Every Jew’s first duty is to his own nation, Am Yisroel. That comes before any other obligation to anyone else. The information he gave Israel saved Jewish lives, and that is all that matters. #34, he has to stay in America because if he leaves the country he could start breaking the law and there would be nothing the parole commission could do about it. They could revoke his parole but he wouldn’t come back and Israel would not extradite him. So they want to see for 5 years that he is keeping the terms of his parole, and if… Read more »

why does he have to stay?
July 29, 2015 8:25 am

why does he have to stay in the States for 5 more years..can’t he just come home to Israel and be with his wife and get on with it, a new life..why another 5 years here..anyone can explain?

the geula is here
July 29, 2015 8:21 am

we just need to open our eyes and do teshuvah,the rebbe sichos,as he said it

HES! NOT! BEING! FREED! EARLY!
July 29, 2015 5:47 am

HE IS SERVING HIS FULL SENTENCE WHICH ENDS NOV. 31

About time, but...
July 29, 2015 1:03 am

I, a registered Democrat am voting Republican in November unless Rubashkin is also freed.

He deserved to sit in jail.....
July 29, 2015 12:27 am

He spied on America for a foreign government, for MONEY. If Israel cared so much for him, they would have granted him asylum in their embassy then. Evidently they didn’t…

Just jumped for joy!
July 28, 2015 9:19 pm

Moshiach is coming now!!!

To #11
July 28, 2015 8:19 pm

Your perspective on why people are excited is distorted. We are happy because this one particular Jew is finally free, not because we think that this in and of itself will serve some other purpose or lead the government to perform less injustice in future. We see it as a positive sign from
G-d and we are just plain joyful that Jonathan Pollard is free. If that bothers you, join the rest of the world- they don’t like it either.

mazol tov
July 28, 2015 7:56 pm

mazol tov mazol tov

Mazal Tov!!!
July 28, 2015 7:39 pm

Tov LaShamayim, Tov La Brios!

So Happy
July 28, 2015 7:20 pm

Amazing news!

watch this HARAV MORDECHI ELIYAHU A FRIEND AND CHOSSID OF OUR REBBE ABOUT J POLLARD
July 28, 2015 7:06 pm
THE FACTS
July 28, 2015 6:49 pm

FIVE SHORT IMPORTANT POLLARD FACTS * He spied for Israel against America 30 years ago and was sentenced to jail for life, with the eligibility of parole. He was to be automatically considered for Parole this November, every other time during the thirty years he had to apply for parole. * This date was set 30 years ago, President Barack Obama didn’t decide on this date today or any day. President Obama is NOT freeing Pollard. Although he can block Pollard’s release. * Pollard’s release has nothing to do with the Iran deal. EXCEPT that is reminds the American public… Read more »

#15, he *was* an Israeli spy.
July 28, 2015 6:38 pm

Why would CNN not call him that? It’s what he was.

#11, We are happy
July 28, 2015 6:37 pm

Because his “crime” was a mitzvah, so he’s just like all those Lubavitchers who were imprisoned in Russia for doing mitzvos.

#1, obama is NOT doing this
July 28, 2015 6:36 pm

0bama had nothing to do with this. The parole commission decided this on its own, because when he was sentenced it was automatic that he had to be considered for parole after 30 years. (Federal parole was abolished in 1984, but only for crimes committed after 1-Nov-1987. So no, Sholom Rubashkin can’t be paroled.)

To number 11
July 28, 2015 5:26 pm

We’re excited because a fellow yid is being released.
It’s true that a lot of other yidden on jail, and we daven that they be released as well.
However, every time one of our brothers is released were are happy.

One more yid who’s free!

Keynote speaker at the Kinus?
July 28, 2015 5:25 pm

I would pay to hear him. I hope he adjusts well to “freedom.”

November 21 this coming year
July 28, 2015 5:19 pm

November 21 in the coming year is tes kislev, the birthday and yarzheit of the Mittler Rebbe and that night is yud ksilev, his day of liberation from imprisonment. May Mr. Pollard use his freedom wisely and increase in Torah, including the study of chassidus. May we all be freed from this galus with the coming of Moshiach now!

Yud tes kislev
July 28, 2015 5:14 pm

November 21st also happens to be yud tes Kislev!!!!!!
Although from what I understand he will be allowed to one day early because of shabbos

Baruch Hashem
July 28, 2015 5:11 pm

Funny how CNN insists Pollard is an “Israeli spy.”..

BH
July 28, 2015 5:00 pm

Moshiach now

Free Pollard and free Rubashkin
July 28, 2015 4:54 pm

It’s all the same – because they are yidden. Hashem should
have rachmanus and they should be out NOW! They are taking so much for all the Jewish people

FREE SHOLOM MORDECHAI RUBASHKIN!!
July 28, 2015 4:33 pm

FREE SHOLOM MORDECHAI RUBASHKIN!!

Why the excitement?
July 28, 2015 4:29 pm

I’m curious why everyone is getting so excited over this. There are thousands of Jews sitting in jail for lesser crimes.

Is everyone so ignorant not to see that this is a huge red herring?

Chaim
July 28, 2015 4:29 pm

He was either going way going to be released then. That is the standard that they are released at 30 years

Mazal tov
July 28, 2015 4:21 pm

Mazal tov!
Why to wait?
Should be NOW!!!

not so fast....
July 28, 2015 4:19 pm

He is not allowed to go to Israel (he is an Israeli citizen) for 5 years. That is ridiculous.

Best News
July 28, 2015 4:04 pm

This is the best news, BH.
No:1 – elections are in November. The democrats are trying to curry favor with the Jewish community. As you say best news irrespective of reason.
May Jonathan be returned to his loved ones and regain his health.

notice
July 28, 2015 3:54 pm

that they are not planning on letting himn out earlier than sentenced…

RABBI MEIR KAHANE
July 28, 2015 3:52 pm

NOW OBAMA SHOULD SO HOW SINCERE HE IS THAT THIS WAS NOT FOR ULTERIOR MOTIVES AND FREE SHOLOM. MODCHA RUBASHKIN OBAMA JUST FREED 89 CONVICTED DRUG FELONS BECAUSE THEIR CRIMES WERE NOT VIOLENT AND THEIR LIFE SENTENCES DID NOT FIT THE CRIMES.

Mazel Tov!
July 28, 2015 3:35 pm
Meir
July 28, 2015 3:26 pm

BS”D
No 1
He’s doing it for good PR- Pollard and then Rubashkin

They need to wait 4 months
July 28, 2015 3:21 pm

H-shem protect him and keep him safe. This whole thing was such a travesty I can’t stomach it.

Mazal Tov!
July 28, 2015 2:56 pm

The greatest news that I heard today. Irrespective of why Obama is doing this.

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