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This interview contains strong language, after the jump. If you read this site, Mikey Weinstein appears in a number of posts. His organization, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, fights to protect the religious freedoms of soldiers and veterans. The infamous Christian Embassy Pentagon video, the anti-Semitic postings on Fort Leavenworth’s website, and now the case of Rabbi Goldman, the “rabbi […]
Read moreRabbi Levy’s comments to an older article are worth repeating in an individual post. I’m a graduate of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion serving as an active duty chaplain in the Air Force. I graduated, was ordained and entered the Air Force chaplaincy just over 11 years ago. We weren’t at war then, but when I applied to their […]
Read moreLieutenant General Blum and 91-year-old Jewish Veteran Agree By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau BOSTON, Ma. (8/22/2007) – As the chief of the National Guard Bureau bragged about today’s Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen to sports commentators at Fenway Park, a 91-year-old World War II veteran sitting in the stands below the broadcasting booth made much the same claims on […]
Read moreFor our Reform Jewish service members, the movement is due to release a new siddur (prayer book). Titled Mishkan T’Filah, it offers a number of significant differences with Gates of Prayer, with inclusion of both new prayers and prayers previously omitted. Reform Judaism has a significant challenge in that it has perhaps the most diverse range of literacy and practice […]
Read moreAnd so it is that the distribution of Left Behind: Eternal Forces will not be distributed to service members. The article credits an ABC News inquiry, but Mikey Weinstein, the vigorous proponent of the separation of church and state and the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, got the ball rolling once again on another case of tax-funded missionary […]
Read moreThe Army National Guard (link here) is launching a new suicide prevention campaign. Statistics have shown that suicide is the third highest killer of citizen Soldiers in the past year. 47 died in combat, 45 in accidents, and 42 were lost to suicide. As the linked article points out, the active duty component has many resources allocated to suicide prevention. […]
Read moreIt has come to my attention that Operation Straight Up, part of the Department of Defense’s America Supports You program, is distributing copies of their extremely creepy video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, to service members currently serving in Iraq. OSU makes no bones about its commitment to an end-times-focused brand of Christianity. The game, which plays like the pabulum […]
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