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From the Lower Hudson Journal News WEST NYACK – As a combat infantry soldier in Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, Alan Moskin wasn’t even aware that Passover had come and gone. There was no matzo, no gefilte fish, no bitter herbs, no Haggadah. Fighting in towns across Europe in the spring of 1945, Moskin, then 18, was just happy to […]
Read morefrom Chabad.org A Passover Haggadah inscribed by President George W. Bush is on its way to a military base in Baghdad after arriving in Kuwait Thursday. For the next week, it will make the rounds of installations throughout the region as a show of support for America’s armed forces in general and its roughly 1,000 soldiers of the Jewish faith […]
Read morePassover on Wheels by David Geffen from the Jerusalem Post At the conclusion of an intense and successful military Korean Pessah mission for 700 Jewish soldiers, Chaplain Oscar Mike Lifshutz wrote an eight-page summary report to Rabbi Aryeh Lev, his supervisor at the Jewish Welfare Board’s Chaplaincy Commission, on May 4, 1951. “We have just returned from the front,”Lifshutz began, […]
Read moreToday I’m experiencing somewhat of deja-vu. I’ve just read the most recent post on Jewsingreen.com concerning an Orthodox chaplain – Army Captain Shmuel Felzenberg – serving in Afghanistan. The article is by Lee Lawrence, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. In describing Chaplain Felzenberg’s kosher dietary needs, Lawrence says that Felzenberg has “Army-supplied kosher meals. For holidays like Passover, the […]
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