Category: Religion

CDR Warren Tanninbaum, USNR wrote an article in the latest issue of The Navy Chaplain about the challenges of maintaining your Jewish identiry while stationed overseas. CDR Tanninbaum’s perspective is particularly interesting because he served in a location particularly void of Jews. Here are some exerpts from the article. You can read it in its entirety by downloading the full […]

Rabbi James Rudin (a former U.S. Air Force chaplain) recently wrote a piece in the Staten Island Advance about Jewish views on various issues in war. The Hebrew Bible and the Jewish religious tradition offer keen insights and teachings about combat and warfare. Because nothing ever came easy to the ancient Israelites-famine, Egyptian slavery, the Exodus, 40 years in the […]