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By Jonathan Tobin, the Jewish Exponent One thing is constant about life on an aircraft carrier: the noise. The roar of jet aircraft engines on the deck is complemented by other sounds heard throughout the ship and below deck: the explosive booms coming from the catapults launching planes and the reverberations of the restraining wires on the steel deck that […]
Read moreChaplain Shlomo Shulman, who frequently sends pictures for our photo gallery, has a great first-person account of his time in Iraq on Aish’s website. Click here for the article.
Read moreBenjamin Nadler has penned an in interesting article, titled “The Few, The Proud, The Jewish” in the Jewish Post. You may read the article here. Interestingly, a bigot author recently used the same statistic of 1500 self-identified Jewish service members to claim we don’t do our share. I still argue that there’s no way to garner an honest statistic for […]
Read moreHat tip to LTC (Rabbi) Eli Seidman, our chaplain in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and the Pittsburgh eruv web site. Rabbi Nosson Sach’s blog Victor Stiebel’s blog
Read moreHat tip to USCJ’s The Brave listserv Holy days draw a crowd for U.S. rabbi’s services in Baghdad By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, September 22, 2007 Most days, the only rabbi in Iraq is the one deployed there by the U.S. Army. Capt. Andrew Shulman usually leads services Friday evenings on Camp Stryker in Baghdad for […]
Read moreHarold Robinson was rabbi at B’Nai Zion from 1998-2006. September 24, 2007 By John Andrew Prime Shreveport Times Former Shreveport Rabbi Harold Robinson, who also has served in national capacities in the Navy Reserve, will retire from military service in Washington, D.C., Tuesday as a rear admiral. Robinson, a native of Boston, planned to retire from B’nai Zion Congregation here […]
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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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