Federal law requires Rikers Island to serve special meals to a child-molesting rabbi, the city’s Correction Department said yesterday.

Baruch Lebovits, convicted of molesting a 16-year-old friend of his son and awaiting trial on another sex-abuse charge, refused to eat the kosher meals the jail provided because he didn’t approve of the rabbi who supervised their preparation. He’s now getting food certified by a rabbi of his choice.