How Do You Say Channukah in Japanese?

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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Cantors Begin To Serve as Chaplains

Back in 2005, the DOD relaxed it’s ordination requirements for Jewish chaplains that would allow for cantors to begin serving in those positions. Well, nearly seven years later, we are finally hearing about the first candidate for this expanded prorgam. 1LT David Frommer, now a chaplain of four years, is the U.S. Army’s first-ever cantor. Frommer was recently featured in […]

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