But surely if they were religious and followed the commandments they wouldnt be in jail in the first place. I find it hard to belive that religious people are in jail in the first place. seculars for sure but not religious surely ?

Fraud, tax evasion, drug trafficking and pedophilia are big among the religious types.

BECAUSE THE INMATES ARE JEWS WHATEVER THEIR LEVEL OF OBSERVANCE IS WHY SHOULD'NT THEY HAVE THE MITZVA OF NEIROT CHANUCHAH?

Yes, not everyone keeps to the commandments as they should, and religious people breaking commandments are doing the same (or possibly worse due to chillul Hashem) evil as secular. That is why the religious position is all commandments should be kept.

" The Hannukah hoax strikes again. It is a Talmudic holiday invented by the rabbis in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of Klal Yisroel (the Judaic people) over the rest of humanity. The secret of Hannukah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev, who revealed that lighting the Hannukah menorah does NOT commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees. The traditional doctri ne of Chazal concerning Hannukah is that it actually signifies God's delight in the Jewish people themselves and their vainglorious celebrations. God provided the mythical 8 days of oil as a sign of His continuing adoration of the Judaic people which the rest of humanity is supposed to envy or emulate. Like in this prison for example. The Hannukah menorah is the symbol of the supreme position which the Holy Judaic People supposedly occupy in God's eyes. It is not a symbol of a Biblical occurence, but of an invented miraculous event that never in fact took place. It is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended, as usual, for self-glorification. It represents not the victory of the Maccabees over the pagans but of the victory of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hannukah is an ongoing reminder of the dark racial conceit of the rabbis and Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all. "

Where to start? You really are bitter. Are you an ancient syrian-greek by any chance?

did you read?

Do you honestly believe that religious people sometimes just make mistakes? Like the kids who are sitting in jail in Japan? And do you think the true guilty ones can't do teshuva? A little rachmanus is called for here.

So, nu? You're quite the Talmudic scholar. Your parents must be kvelling over their daughter-the-gaon.