By the grace of G-d,

Shalom has spent  7 years serving a 27 year  sentence.  His sentence has impacted, his children,  the jewish people and  the whole world. 

Please sign this Mention asking Mr President to have mercy  once more.

Some 64 individuals were pardoned by Obama on Tuesday as he prepares to leave office. An additional 209 prisoners had their sentences commuted, amounting to a total of 1,597 clemencies in his 8 year tenure.

The New York Democrats asked Obama to do the same for Rubashkin, a Chassidic Jew from Postville, Iowa, who has been sentenced for to an unprecedented 27 years in federal prison.

"We respectfully ask that you consider freeing Mr. Rubashkin, who.. has already served seven years of his sentence," they wrote in a letter to the White House, a copy of which was given to COLlive.com.

"In your eight years as president of our great country, you have asserted that you seek truth, justice, and equality for all. It would be a truly fitting conclusion to your term to demonstrate that by freeing Sholom Rubashkin."

The letter was signed by Chaim Deutsch, Andrew Cohen, Rory Lancman, Karen Koslowitz, Helen Rosenthal, Alan Maisel, Laurie Cumbo, Brad Lander, Barry Grodenchick and Stephen Levin.

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