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Rabbi Landman’s memoir, My Sky Pilot Career : A Rabbi in the United States Air Force, is a wonderful look into the career of this accomplished Jewish Chaplain. For those unfamiliar with Rabbi Landman’s work, he served as an Air Force chaplain for over 25 years and played a major role in shaping the Jewish chaplaincy into what it is […]
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The Jewish Welfare Board is creating a timeline on Facebook to show the history of Jews in the military, and to honor our contribution and service to our country. I think this is a very cool project, and one that is probably well overdue. While I don’t think that Facebook is necessarily the best place for this to be done, if […]
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The JCC Association announced that it will present the Jewish Military Leadership Award to Rear Admiral Herman Shelanski, Commander, Carrier Strike Group 10, at the JCCs of North America Biennial in New Orleans on May 7, 2012. “Admiral Shelanski personifies the highest qualities of a Jewish military leader,” said Rabbi Harold Robinson, director of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. A retired admiral […]
Read moreAs the month of January comes to a close, so does an era at the Jewish Welfare Board, Jewish Chaplains Council. Rabbi Nathan Landman, known to many military Jewish Lay Leaders the world over is retiring from the JWB after two decades of service. Some military Lay Leaders have literally grown up with Rabbi Landman, been Bar Mitzvah’d by him, […]
Read moreAs reported back in June, there was a change of command at the JWB this month. Below is Rabbi Lapp’s farewell message: This will be my final message to you as your JWB Director. If there ever was a definition of ‘mixed emotions’, the ones I am experiencing now certainly qualify. On the one hand, to leave a position which […]
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The deputy director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, Rabbi Nathan Landman, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the annual convention of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis, in San Diego this week. Landman’s active-duty career began in 1956 in the US Air Force. After retiring in 1981, he […]
Read moreRabbi Harold Robinson, a Rear Admiral who serves as the Navy’s Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters, as Director of Religious Ministries in the Marine Corps Reserve, and as a congregational rabbi in Shreveport, Louisiana, will be the next director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. Rabbi Robinson will join the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council full time in September. […]
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