U.S. federal district Judge Jack B. Weinstein died on Tuesday at the age of 99. He served on the Eastern District of New York for 53 years-- until he took inactive senior status in 2020. The New York Times describes Weinstein as "a legal scholar and famously independent federal judge in Brooklyn who led the legal system into an era of mass tort litigation." Chabad.org has published a lengthy account of Weinstein's support for the Aleph Institute, Chabad-Lubavitch's organization that advocates for criminal justice reform.
