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CAMP SENDAI, Japan – Chag Sameach is a common saying heard all over the world as we enter into the Hanukkah season. It’s a saying also being heard around Camp Sendai, Japan. It is spouting from the joyous mouths of American service members, Jewish and Christian alike, who are there in support of the bi-lateral training exercise known as Yama […]
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More great photos from Chaplain Shlomo Shulman, stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany. This year he shook the lulav on the old Wehrmacht parade grounds. Chag sameach!
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Air Force Major Menashe Miller recently ended his term as Mayor of Lakewood, New Jersey and will be deploying to the Middle East to serve as a Jewish chaplain for the troops during the holiday season. Miller leaves in early December to offer support during the Chanukah holiday and is expected to return in January. When he returns, he will again be appointed […]
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This great story was forwarded to us by one of our regular readers. It was originally published in Midstream Magazine in 1996. It is shared with permission from the author, Mike Lipstock. While it is a work of fiction, it is still a fine tale. Apologies for the slurs, but it was the vernacular of the time period. Today is […]
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Editor’s Note: I hope this starts a trend. Maj. (Ret) Edith Freyer sent me the following, complete with photos, of Purim festivities at Fort Hood. In spite of a recent misunderstanding broadcast by someone new to the Fort Hood Jewish community, this article demonstrates that the on-post community is a welcoming bunch. Other installation lay leaders and chaplains are encouraged […]
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Celebrating Chanukah 2007 in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace, who would think? Yet tonight inside a marble encrusted hall in Baghdad, we lit the eighth light of a hand-made, 6-foot tall menorah. We prayed in Hebrew, joyfully sang a medley of Chanukah songs, ate latkes, and best of all, we were Jews together in the land of our earliest forefathers. The […]
Read moreDid you ever feel like the Jewish version of the father from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” gleefully relating how we invented the kimono? Here’s a bit of Flag Day trivia… Did you know that Flag Day is, in part, attributed to German-born Jew Benjamin Altheimer? When a St. Louis minister complained about a foreign-born Jew coming up with a […]
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