Alden, NY – New York’s Longest Jewish Serving Inmate Dies at Age 72

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    Wende Correctional Facility's medical unitAlden, NY – Jerry Rosenberg, New York’s longest serving inmate, has died of natural causes after 46 years in state prison.

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    Rosenberg who’s Jewish name was Yakov Shimshon ben Eliezer Yosef, was 72 and doing time for a botched 1962 stickup in Brooklyn that left two off-duty police officers dead. Rosenberg had maintained his innocence.

    He had been held at the Wende Correctional Facility’s medical unit since 2000 and died Monday. Corrections officials say privacy laws prohibit them from providing a specific cause of death. A picture taken in March shows him with an oxygen tube.

    Rosenberg was hours away from the electric chair in 1964 when he received a stay.

    In 1967, Rosenberg became the first inmate in the state to earn a law degree behind bars. He was a prisoner spokesmen during the Attica uprising in 1971.

    Chesed Shel Emes are currently meeting with NY State Prison officials to release the body and to bring him to Kever Yisroel at their cemetery in Liberty, NY.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    burach dayn emes

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    46 years??? Wow How did he survive soooooooo many years.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What a kiddush Hashem…
    TNTB’H

    David
    David
    14 years ago

    Thaya.Nishmusio.Tzriour.Bzriour.hachaim.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    This guy was a mob wanna-be, and a dangerous thug – a real shtarker. Read Albert Seedman’s book “Chief” if you’re interested in the story – he has a whole chapter on the crime, which incidentally, was either in or very near BP (it was right off New Utrecht Avenue, although I don’t remember which street off the top of my head).

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Was he a shomer shabbos?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The crime happened on New Utrecht Ave. corner 48th Street

    a yid says
    a yid says
    14 years ago

    Chesed Shel Emes are currently meeting with NY State Prison officials to release the body and to bring him to Kever Yisroel at their cemetery in Liberty, NY.

    WOW
    WOW
    WOW
    is all that can b said on a org. like this
    keep up ur good work RABBI ROSENBERG

    shimon
    shimon
    14 years ago

    no difference shomer shabbos or not it says in zohar hakodesh every jewish persons neshomoh and body is kodesh so does that answer your question

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    yes he was a heimishe yingerman

    Fishel
    Fishel
    14 years ago

    Did he leave any children? I think yisrol af al p shechootoh yisrol he. Especially that he maintained his innocents till his last day. Who knows back in those days there was no technology, Dna, and every thing was corrupted as corrupted can be, remember the two cops that where just indicted about greenwalds murder. anyhow Thaya.Nishmusio.Tzriour.Bzriour.hachaim.

    Abe
    Abe
    14 years ago

    B”H now there’s one less yid in jail. Hopefully he got his kaporah on this world.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    was it on 48th street??

    eitza geber
    eitza geber
    14 years ago

    to number 8: Why do you say he was a heimisher yingerman. If you don’t know keep your mouth shut. I remember the crime. When was the last time you heard of a “heimisher” yingerman killing someone

    eitza geber
    eitza geber
    14 years ago

    addendum to my posting (#15). the other people arrested with him were not Jewish. He was as Heimish as Mayor Bloomberg

    proud sepharic jew
    proud sepharic jew
    14 years ago

    I think it was on 48th st & new Utrecth ave, where the Optimo wholesale cigarette place is. Two Detectives were killed, there is a plaque on the wall there, I didnt know a YId did it

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    i have no doubt that if this man was guilty of the crime, he surely did t’shuva many times over. Please don’t fall for the yetzer hora’s trick of trying to get you to gossip about this topic.
    Chazal teach us that you shouldn’t judge a man until you are in his shoes. If you insist on judging him, then you are clearly asking God to put you in his shoes.

    Hatzlacha Rabba

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Learn mishnayos Most defiantly Chesed Shel Emes

    jack .weial
    jack .weial
    14 years ago

    a jew iz a jew for ever

    saddened
    saddened
    14 years ago

    Baruch dayin emes.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    He was NOT shomer shabat. He was a gang member in a botched robbery of a wholesale tobacco business in BoroPark. Yes, there are at least 2 convicted killers in jail who were shomer shabos when they commited their dastardly crime. Dont forget the diamond polisher-dealer who kept the body of his victim for days in his shop under his feet while the whole jewish city was looking for the poor victim. And also rotting in jail is the wife killer from flatbush, and a few others, not so frum, or who found religion in jail.