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from Chabad.org A Passover Haggadah inscribed by President George W. Bush is on its way to a military base in Baghdad after arriving in Kuwait Thursday. For the next week, it will make the rounds of installations throughout the region as a show of support for America’s armed forces in general and its roughly 1,000 soldiers of the Jewish faith […]
Read morePassover on Wheels by David Geffen from the Jerusalem Post At the conclusion of an intense and successful military Korean Pessah mission for 700 Jewish soldiers, Chaplain Oscar Mike Lifshutz wrote an eight-page summary report to Rabbi Aryeh Lev, his supervisor at the Jewish Welfare Board’s Chaplaincy Commission, on May 4, 1951. “We have just returned from the front,”Lifshutz began, […]
Read moreToday I’m experiencing somewhat of deja-vu. I’ve just read the most recent post on Jewsingreen.com concerning an Orthodox chaplain – Army Captain Shmuel Felzenberg – serving in Afghanistan. The article is by Lee Lawrence, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. In describing Chaplain Felzenberg’s kosher dietary needs, Lawrence says that Felzenberg has “Army-supplied kosher meals. For holidays like Passover, the […]
Read moreOrder haggadot here. Deployed abroad? Looking for a speedy Pesach seder so one meets halachic requirements and still fits within the “hurry up and wait” of the military? Anyone who’s ever been anywhere in the military knows that the mission comes first. The 30minute-Seder, approved by Reconstructionist Rabbi and the Army’s own Chaplain Bonnie Koppell, is a perfect alternative haggadah […]
Read moreLast year, http://www.thejewishsoldier.com posted “The Jewish-American Haggadah.” Well, it’s back online and just a click away. A great way to share your Jewish ritual/heritage at the contemporary Thanksgiving Dinner table whether it is with friends or family. May you have a safe, peaceful and blessed Thanksgiving Day wherever in the world you may be. Hag Sameach!
Read moreTim Judah’s family left Baghdad in the late nineteenth century. When Saddam Hussein’s regime fell he was the first member of his family back in Baghdad for over a century. He decided to find what is left of the Iraqi Jewish community: ‘According to those that remain, their numbers add up to the grand total of thirty-four people.’ Baghdad was […]
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When forty people show up at your Passover Seder (literally Order), it is anything but orderly. But it is a blessing – especially when you are fighting a war in Iraq where duty schedules are heavy and Jews are not only scarce but also scattered across what we in the military dub the ITO – or Iraqi Theater of Operations. […]
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