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Lieutenant Commander Rabbi Seth Phillips of the U.S. Navy recently returned from Iraq, where he administered to and represented Jewish sailors and Marines fighting hard over there. This April he led a Pesach seder for about 50 Jewish Marines, soldiers and civilian contractors, as well as another for Christians – requested by a chaplain who “wanted his soldiers to experience […]
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Perhaps it was in the spirit of Memorial Day, but more than a few Jewish newspapers recently had features on Jews serving in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Two in particular that I want to spotlight are from the Baltimore Jewish Times and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. The Times article talks about three Baltimore locals […]
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Things are finally starting to pick up around here and I am not talking about the war in Iraq, which is hundreds of miles away from here. I am talking about finding some other Jews to outreach to. I am here at an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia as part of a volunteer two month deployment. I have been […]
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Jewish chaplains are hard to come by sometimes, especially in small isolated units. This problem often becomes particularly evident during holidays, when religious leaders are in high demand. To combat this problem, a New York chapter of the Jewish War Veterans is sending 12 rabbis to the Middle East to conduct seders for the troops. It’s called “Operation Matzoh Meals”. […]
Read moreThe following is more from the Hamodia article by Dvora Frankel. See the main article HERE During Operation Desert Storm, Rabbi Feld was deployed in northern Iraq, or in military parlance, “in harm’s way” in northern Iraq. Half a million Kurds fled Saddam Hussein to the mountainous region on the northern border with Turkey. It was winter in the mountains, […]
Read moreA few weeks ago LTC Mitchell Ackerson, the Army’s top Jewish Chaplain in Iraq, returned home to his family in Baltimore. Rabbi Ackerson left some awfully big shoes to fill in Iraq. The Baltimore Jewish Times recently wrote an incredibly in-depth article about his adventures in Iraq and his heartwarming return to the States. This is kind of the Everything […]
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Here’s one for the history books! This year, over 100 U.S. Jewish troops, civilians, and even a few Iraqi nationals celebrated Passover in a very unique location: Saddam Husseins former Presidential Palace in Baghdad. The seder was organized and lead by Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson (LTC, USA), the senior chaplain for the US Army 220th Military Police Brigade. Update: Click on […]
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