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Chaplain Frommer is in the news again, this time in The Atlantic. It’s a great article about his Sukkot experience in Kuwait. Not only is it a nice telling of holiday observance in an austere environment, but it has some intrigue: In two days, Engineer Congregant’s soldiers had secured the necessary lumber and constructed a sukkah that looked sturdy enough […]
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Back in 2005, the DOD relaxed it’s ordination requirements for Jewish chaplains that would allow for cantors to begin serving in those positions. Well, nearly seven years later, we are finally hearing about the first candidate for this expanded prorgam. 1LT David Frommer, now a chaplain of four years, is the U.S. Army’s first-ever cantor. Frommer was recently featured in […]
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Army Colonel (and fellow member of the tribe) Holly Doyne has written a book entitled Kuwait Diary. The book provides a rare look into the real lives of the women and men in combat service support, those who were performing the myriad of tasks to keep goods and services flowing north. Through the daily emails she sent to family, colleagues […]
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