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By Jeanette Friedman Oct 31, 2010 12:00 PM Eleven-year-old Shaina Agami, preparing to celebrate her bat mitzvah next year, could have chosen any number of fun things to do to infuse meaning into the special day. Instead, the South Florida girl is working to ensure that people will always remember her brother Danny, a vibrant 25-year-old cut down in the […]
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Georgia’s First Jewish Military Chaplain Will Get to Keep His Beard Chabad.org Staff Feb 28, 2008 In another day and age, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Lipskier’s full length beard might have prevented his being a military chaplain. But in a sign of the times, when Lipskier is formally commissioned as a chaplain in the Georgia State Defense Force and its Army […]
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One of our astute readers pointed out that the Coast Guard recently changed its uniform policy to allow service members to wear yarmulkes while in uniform. The change did not come easy. When Jack Rosenberg went to join the Coast Guard, he explained that his religion required him to wear a kippah at all times. The Coast Guard initially turned […]
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For those of us who don’t regularly see a copy of the Air Force Times, or another service’s equivalent, this week’s front-page article is a doosy. The Air Force is considering using boots made of pigskin beginning FY07. Apparently they’re easiest to clean, from all the testing they’ve done so far on various types of hide. The article focuses on […]
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By Daniel Eric Minkow, 1st Lt USAF Can a Jew wear a Kippah while in military uniform? I came upon this very important question and its answer, this article, when USAF Capt Rebecca Minkow, my sister, posed the question to me. As the Jewish Lay leader for Travis Air Force Base, I felt it was important for me to find […]
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