The Jewish Chaplaincy
31 December 18:00
The Jewish Chaplaincy by Don Canaan
The Jewish Chaplaincy
By Don Canaan
(412 words)
(c) Don Canaan -- All rights reserved
On Feb. 3, 1943, the S.S. Dorchester was ferrying American troops to Europe. The adolescent soldiers on board, beginning from academy and their families, did not accept any abstraction a U-boat was tailing them until the German torpedoes addled the address broadside.
The men were ordered over the side, but there weren t abundant activity jackets to go around. The four chaplains on lath voluntarily gave up their activity preservers and lives so that some others ability live.
The four chaplains were a All-embracing priest, Methodist and Baptist ministers and Clergyman Alexander D. Goode of Cincinnati. They stood on the deck, duke in hand, as the Dorchester agee and sank below the after-effects of the agitated mid-Atlantic.
Jews accept been a allotment of every American Army back the Advocate War, but Jewish chaplains were not accustomed to serve them until the end of Apple War I.
Fifty percent of West Point s first admission chic of 1802 was Jewish, but the chic consisted of alone two graduates.
Added than 8,000 Jewish soldiers, including eight generals, 21 colonels, 40 majors, 205 captains, 325 lieutenants, 48 adjutants and 25 surgeons served in the Abutment Army. Seven Jews won the Aldermanic Badge of Account during the congenial conflict.
One Jew, Michael Allen, was appointed a clergyman in the 5th Pennsylvania Army during the Civilian War, but he was affected to abandon beneath pressure. The Advance Bill accurately appropriate chaplains to be "regularly advancing clergymen of some Christian denomination."
By the end of 1917 the Jewish Abundance Lath (JWB) was asked to recruit rabbis to serve in the Clergyman Corps. Some Jewish doughboys had complained they had not apparent one Jewish clergyman during their absolute aggressive career. Jewish volunteers accounted for 20 percent of all American acreage and sea forces.
The War Administration had accustomed one clergyman for every 1,200 men, but it was estimated application alone amounted to one per 10,000 Jews. In adjustment to aggrandize this coverage, the JWB furnished a Ford auto for anniversary rabbi, authoritative them, as one clergyman said, the backbiting of all of France."
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Don Canaan is managing editor of Israel Account Faxx, amid at israelfaxx.com, a leading, free, circadian Internet advertisement absolute account from Israel. Israelfaxx.com aswell contains added than 1,750 links of absorption to Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers, as able-bodied as a subscription-based searchable annal of Israel Account Faxx onlinewriting dating to April 1993.
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The Jewish Chaplaincy by Don Canaan
The Jewish Chaplaincy
By Don Canaan
(412 words)
(c) Don Canaan -- All rights reserved
On Feb. 3, 1943, the S.S. Dorchester was ferrying American troops to Europe. The adolescent soldiers on board, beginning from academy and their families, did not accept any abstraction a U-boat was tailing them until the German torpedoes addled the address broadside.
The men were ordered over the side, but there weren t abundant activity jackets to go around. The four chaplains on lath voluntarily gave up their activity preservers and lives so that some others ability live.
The four chaplains were a All-embracing priest, Methodist and Baptist ministers and Clergyman Alexander D. Goode of Cincinnati. They stood on the deck, duke in hand, as the Dorchester agee and sank below the after-effects of the agitated mid-Atlantic.
Jews accept been a allotment of every American Army back the Advocate War, but Jewish chaplains were not accustomed to serve them until the end of Apple War I.
Fifty percent of West Point s first admission chic of 1802 was Jewish, but the chic consisted of alone two graduates.
Added than 8,000 Jewish soldiers, including eight generals, 21 colonels, 40 majors, 205 captains, 325 lieutenants, 48 adjutants and 25 surgeons served in the Abutment Army. Seven Jews won the Aldermanic Badge of Account during the congenial conflict.
One Jew, Michael Allen, was appointed a clergyman in the 5th Pennsylvania Army during the Civilian War, but he was affected to abandon beneath pressure. The Advance Bill accurately appropriate chaplains to be "regularly advancing clergymen of some Christian denomination."
By the end of 1917 the Jewish Abundance Lath (JWB) was asked to recruit rabbis to serve in the Clergyman Corps. Some Jewish doughboys had complained they had not apparent one Jewish clergyman during their absolute aggressive career. Jewish volunteers accounted for 20 percent of all American acreage and sea forces.
The War Administration had accustomed one clergyman for every 1,200 men, but it was estimated application alone amounted to one per 10,000 Jews. In adjustment to aggrandize this coverage, the JWB furnished a Ford auto for anniversary rabbi, authoritative them, as one clergyman said, the backbiting of all of France."
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Don Canaan is managing editor of Israel Account Faxx, amid at israelfaxx.com, a leading, free, circadian Internet advertisement absolute account from Israel. Israelfaxx.com aswell contains added than 1,750 links of absorption to Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers, as able-bodied as a subscription-based searchable annal of Israel Account Faxx onlinewriting dating to April 1993.
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