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San Quentin's Jewish Chaplain Celebrates Last Hanukkah Behind Bars

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For the last decade, Carole Hyman has been the only woman at an annual Hanukkah celebration. That's because she's the Jewish chaplain at San Quentin Prison. In a spare room with beige cinder block walls, well-worn linoleum floors and harsh fluorescent lights she ministers to inmates, most who are serving life sentences for first or second-degree murder.

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