From the Department of News that continues to amuse.

A bar mitzvah can never be too big-even when it’s in the big house.

A Manhattan inmate held a swanky bar mitzvah for his son in the prison’s gym-a story which the New York Post first reported.

More than 60 non-inmates attended the six-hour fete, complete with kosher catering and live music.

The party planner appears to be the now-resigned prison chaplain, Rabbi Glanz, who has a record of making prison more accommodating for his chosen people. The New York Times also reported that the rabbi has a history of influence outside the prison system.

The jailbird, Tuvia Stern, was once a fugitive on fraud charges.

The bar mitzvah went so well that Stern decided to host his daughter’s engagement party in prison a few months later.

Photo credit: William Miller, New York Post