Building a Sukkah in Kuwait

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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Cantors Begin To Serve as Chaplains

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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Finding Kosher Kimchi in Korea

by Chaplain (CPT) Shlomo Shulman South Korea has been in the news a lot lately. It’s hard to believe this ultra-modern, peaceful country with spotless sidewalks and almost no street crime is on the front lines of the last battle of the Cold War. I’ve been a US Army chaplain in Seoul for the past year-and-a-half. I’m assigned to the […]

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A Dixie Sukkah in Al Anbar

Click here to read the full article. Chapel Hill, N.C. – Sturdy pontoon bridges, guard towers and mess halls are standard work assignments for the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s construction battalions. But a physician assigned to a Seabee unit in western Iraq had to look elsewhere this year for help erecting a small hut that will last only eight days. […]

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A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula

Came across this article, I think it’s great (especially when we supply the Jewish stuff!) Dee – Jewish Prime Vendor A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA By Rebecca Rosenthal (Original Article) North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea […]

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Capt. Felzenberg and the Super-Sukkah

Uriel Heilman over at the JTA recently wrote a great article about celebrating the holidays overseas. In the article, Rabbi Felzenberg talks about his battalion’s own Army engineers bulding him a sukkah, “which could likely withstand a hurricane!” He is also trying to get the welders to make “a nice display-size menorah for Chanukah. How is that for support! It’s […]

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