Obama mentor: Free Pollard!

A day after Netanyahu submits a historic letter asking Obama to free Pollard, Obama gets another Free Pollard letter, this time from his friend and mentor, the Jerusalem Post reports:

US President Barack Obama received yet another letter asking him to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard on Wednesday, but unlike other pleas for clemency, this one came from a man he knows and respects, Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree.

Ogletree, who directs the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard, was Obama's professor and his wife Michelle's and the president still considers him his mentor and friend. "I have written President Obama seeking a pardon for Jonathan Pollard," Ogletree wrote. "I hope the president grants the wishes of many who have supported a pardon for Mr. Pollard."

Former chief rabbi of Israel Harav Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l was very close with Pollard. After his passing, Pollard's wife Esther shared: " Over time, the Rav shared with us and with a few others who were very close to him that Jonathan’s release is the key to the redemption of all of Am Yisrael."

Let's pray for Pollard's release in a way that is untied to any settlement freeze, as Pollard himself would want.

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