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The following is the text from a sermon given by Rabbi Steven Rein of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Alexandria, VA. For the second time in recent memory, the festival of Shavuot, and more specifically, the recitation of Yizkor, coincides with Memorial Day. Today, we recall not only parents, children, siblings, friends, and family, but more than one million men and […]
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Sunday, March 8, 2015, 1:00 p.m. Lee Mandel on Chaplain Roland Gittelsohn: Unlikely Warrior Michael Bloom on the History of the Military Siddur In 1945, when a fellow chaplain opposed Jewish participation in the religious service dedicating the 5th Marine Division Cemetery at Iwo Jima, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn ended up giving his eulogy to a much smaller group of Jewish […]
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A regular JIG reader sent in a link to this touching article from Tablet Magazine. It’s about Chaplain Meir Engel’s inspirational interaction with Pvt Richard Eisenberg, an MP in 1964, Soc Trang, Vietnam, which changed Pvt Eisenberg’s life. LtCol Engel was the first Jewish Chaplain in Vietnam, who later died in Vietnam and is memorialized on the Jewish Chaplain’s Monument, at […]
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Some photos from the High Holidays in Kaiserslautern, Germany with Chaplain Shulman.
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On Wednesday of this week, in Philadelphia, I was saddened but honored to be a co-officiant at the funeral service for Rabbi Aaron Landes, a prominent rabbi in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania for many years. Both as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and as a long-time friend of the family – his in-laws had been members of my congregation for over fifty […]
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Story by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob McDonald KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – A 19-year old boy named Chaim Stern leaned over the railing of the ship he was traveling on. Nearly two years before, he had left his homeland of Czechoslovakia to escape persecution from the spreading Nazi threat. Now, as he reached British held Israel, the ship, full of refugees […]
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Some photos from another great seder in Germany with Chaplain Shulman.
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