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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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Every now and then I get an email from a group or organization that wants to support our readers (as well as sell their wares). The latest is from the folks over at World of Judaica. To show their support of Jews in uniform (and their families), they are offering a 10% discount on anything purchased in their online store, […]
Read moreFrom the St. Louis Jewish Light: By Jill Kassander Special to the jewish Light The caravan of cars filled with members of the Jewish War Veterans Post #644 left the Jewish Federation building on Sunday and headed to Scott Air Force Base to celebrate Hanukkah with military personnel and their families. More than 40 people of all ages joined in […]
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From the Jewish Exponent. December 18, 2008 – Aaron Passman At this time of year, Rabbi Jon Cutler would ordinarily be preparing to lead Chanukah services at Congregation Tiferes B’nai Israel in Warrington. But this is no ordinary year. Cutler, a military chaplain and commander with the Navy Reserves, is currently stationed in Iraq at Al-Asad Naval Air Base, in […]
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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 moreFrom Canadian Jewish News – Lt. Laurie Zimmet of Los Angeles, an observant Jew of Los Angeles, California, organized a seder over Passover and erected a menorah in one of Saddam’s former palaces. This story in the Canadian Jewish News is quite fascinating and worth the read. From the article: “She declined to be described as frum or observant. “I […]
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