Rabbi Leib Glanz, the city jail chaplain under investigation for organizing a bar mitzvah in the Tombs, resigned today because of the scandal, The Post has learned.
Glanz’s move came just a day after Department of Correction Chief Peter Curcio resigned for not having stopped the rabbi from setting up the bar mitzvah in the lower Manhattan jail for an inmate’s son.
That catered affair and details of other preferential treatment afforded certain Jewish inmates was first reported by The Post last week.
“Yes, I resigned. I decided it was best for everybody,” said a distraught, frazzled Glanz at his apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Curcio told The Post today that it was controversial head chaplain Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil who signed off on the bar mitzvah, not him.
“I regret the embarrassment that this event has caused the city of New York. As a three-star bureau chief, I understand that I’m ultimately responsible for everything,” Curcio said.
“However, in this particular instance, I did not approve the bar mitzvah — it was approved by Umar [Abdul-Jalil].”
Curcio said that he resigned primarily to spend more time with his family and not just because of the bar mitzvah brouhaha.
Glanz was suspended for two weeks last Wednesday for his role in the Dec. 30 event, at which about 60 non-inmate guests dined on kosher catered food, using silverware brought in from outside, as they enjoyed the vocal stylings of Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey.
Curcio, who quit yesterday, and three other top DOC officials lost two weeks vacation because of the scandal.
Since then, former Tombs inmates and correction officers have described in detail how Glanz coddled Jewish inmates at the jail, bringing them food from outside, allowing them to use his office as a meeting place, and allowing them to place calls on his secure phone line there.
The Department of Investigation is probing the situation and in recent days had interviewed both Glanz and Curcio, sources said.
Glanz blasted The Post for the recent series of blockbuster stories detailing how he gave Jewish inmates at The Tombs perks unavailable to other prisoners.
The rabbi said those articles were “uncalled for, totally unjust, pure lies.”
“Whoever gave that information over lied,” said Glanz.
“For 35 years I’ve been in public life. I never did bad for a single creature.”