After Incarceration, Creating Hope and Future

By. H. Glenn Rosenkrantz

She described a journey through a darkness most know nothing about — that of a professional Jewish woman navigating the netherworld of prison life and later reemerging into society to reclaim her dignity and purpose.

Evie Litwok was at a New Jersey synagogue speaking at a social action Shabbat, and if her tale of a life bent to extremes by the criminal justice and penal systems created awareness through discomfort — and it did, judging alone from the air in the room — then she hit her…