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b"This episode provides fascinating details of how the Jewish incarcerated are able to receive support for the practice of their religion due to a network of dedicated professionals.Rabbi Joseph Kolakowski shares his unique perspective for reaching persons of all faiths(including Wiccans and Odinists) with Rabbi Kivelevitz, and the pair find quite a bit of depth in Halloween.Kolakowski is the Facility Chaplaincy Program Director at the The State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Waymart, Pennsylvania. The institution is a medium security prison facility housing 1,100 inmates and a 120 bed Forensic Treatment Center, which provides inpatient psychiatric treatment in a secure setting for adult male offenders. Kolakowski is the first Rabbi in the history of the Commonwealth to serve as head chaplain in a state prison. Prior to his present position, he served pulpits and chaplaincy positions in Virginia and Upstate New York. The Rabbi has emerged as a talented speaker in areas of religion, politics, spirituality, popular culture, history, and interfaith affairs. He has created an extremely popular YouTube channel with thousands of followers.Kolakowski unashamedly recounts his personal history. While his mother was raised in aModern Orthodoxhome in Queens, his father is a devout Roman Catholic. He had abrisin an Orthodox synagogue but was also baptized in a Catholic church.His maternal grandparents encouraged him to have a bar mitzvah in their Orthodox Shul which spurred the young Kolakowski to adopt a frum lifestyle.At eighteen, he spent a year in a YeshivainYerushalayim, whose environs drew him into Hasidic practice and philosophy .Kolakowski went on to study for and receive semichahatYeshivaOr KedoshimBialainBrooklyn. He recognized the need to obtain a B.A. in psychology fromLander College for Men.Hearing the call to become a communal leader, he matriculated to Touro College for a postgraduate certificate in Advanced Rabbinics and Synagogue Managementin conjunction with theNational Council of Young Israeland theYoung Israel Council of Rabbis. Rabbi Kolakowski's English translation of seferSeder HaYomby the late Biala Rebbe was published in2006inIsrael to wide acclaim. He can be reached at josephkolakowski@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate"