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Jewish service members hold a torah scroll while wearing tefillin at the Aleph Institute's Military Symposium in February. 2026 (Yisroel Teitelbaum/Aleph Institute)
March 7, 2026, 3:06 pm
US Jewish groups ask Pentagon to stop Messianic chaplains from wearing Jewish insignia
In combat and remote postings, patches function as a quick signal of religious identity. Mainstream Jews say a group known for Christian proselytization is deliberately misusing them
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Chaplain Baruch Siris visits with patient Clara Stofkooper at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, in this recent undated photo. (Courtesy/ Dina Frenkel)
May 17, 2024, 1:56 pm
Chaplain duo at Soroka hospital treat patients spiritually wounded by October 7
The country’s second-largest hospital has taken in some 3,000 people hurt during the Hamas atrocities and their aftermath, but as the clergy can attest, not all wounds are physical
By Diana Bletter
Rabbi Gabriel Kretzmer-Seed, right, speaks with volunteers about his work as the Jewish chaplain at Rikers. (NYC Department of Corrections)
April 23, 2024, 10:01 am
At Rikers Island, Jewish volunteers connect with inmates by leading prayer services
Joining grassroots efforts to alleviate the notoriously brutal conditions at NY State’s largest jail is a group from the UWS Base that learns, prays and spends time with prisoners
By julia GERGELY
Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, Jewish chaplain at the University of Leeds, in the fall of 2023, during his reserve duty during Israel's war against Hamas. (screen capture: X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 18, 2024, 8:19 pm
‘Dirty Zionist motherf*ckers’: Recordings show threats against UK rabbi after IDF duty
Among some 300 calls and texts were threats of murder and rape against Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch and his family, which forced them into hiding
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Alexander D. Goode and a view of the Dorchester, which was requisitioned by the US Army during World War II. The ship was sunk by a German torpedo on February 3, 1943. (Courtesy Mark Auerbach via JTA)
February 8, 2023, 10:39 am
Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month
Mark Auerbach works to preserve the memory of his relative Alexander Goode, an army chaplain who gave away his lifejacket and calmed panicked soldiers after a German U-boat attack
By Lisa Keys
A Christian worshiper prays in front of a memorial to fallen soldiers at the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 6, 2022. The memorial is dedicated to Ukrainian soldiers who died after 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
March 8, 2022, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 8 – From Lviv: Ukrainian military chaplains & other heroes
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman in Ukraine explains hot-button issues, evacuation corridors and no-fly zones; environment reporter Sue Surkes brings us good news for a change
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: T'ruah Rabbi Ariel Stone, holding megaphone, at a social justice rally in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Stone)
February 4, 2022, 4:45 pm
A new kind of chaplain? US Jewish clergy train to support social justice activists
T’ruah partners with the Faith Matters Network on a new course in ‘movement chaplaincy,’ which seeks to provide a spiritual anchor for protesters who face the ‘pain of the world’
By Danielle Ziri
Jon Grobman (center) poses with a group of incarcerated men at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. His own prison term behind him, Grobman now works as director of programs for Paws for Life K9 Rescue, which has incarcerated men train shelter dogs. (Courtesy of Rita Earl Blackwell, via JTA)
September 6, 2021, 5:09 am
A rabbi and rescue dogs helped this US prison lifer find freedom and redemption
Jon Grobman was given a life sentence without parole, but after dedicating himself to helping fellow inmates through a canine training program, he’s been granted an early release
By Alix Wall
Zsolt Balla, state rabbi of Saxony, stands in the synagogue in Leipzig, Germany, on June 21, 2021, after his induction into the office of Military Rabbi of the Armed Forces. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)
June 21, 2021, 9:56 pm
German military installs its first rabbi in a century
Hungarian-born Rabbi Zsolt Balla says he feels a ‘historic responsibility’ to serve Jewish soldiers
By AFP
Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer Balla at the biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in Antwerp in May 2019. (Photo by Eli Itkin)
June 12, 2021, 8:55 am
Germany’s 1st post-WWII military rabbi aims to open door to more Jewish recruits
The son of a Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Mordechai Balla says one of the most important aspects of his new job is educating non-Jewish soldiers while ministering to all faiths’ needs
By Yaakov Schwartz
New York City Police Department Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass gives the invocation at the State of the City Address in New York City. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
September 2, 2020, 10:08 pm
Suspect charged in mugging of NYPD chaplain, 84
Rabbi Alvin Kass was held down and robbed during his daily early morning walk on city’s Upper West Side; attacker believed to be homeless
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Alvin Kass addressing members of the press. (Courtesy Lt. Steven A. Jerome)
September 1, 2020, 8:35 pm
NYPD chief chaplain mugged on early morning walk in Upper West Side
Police say suspect accosted Rabbi Alvin Kass and demanded money for food as he rifled through 84-year-old’s pockets
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: In this photo taken Thursday, June 20, 2013, Israeli Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, left, of the Kashuvot organization for pastoral care, posed for a photo with a patient and nurse at a hospital in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March 27, 2020, 4:29 am
While working remotely, chaplains aim to give COVID-19 patients rare human touch
With a ‘new normal’ causing most clerical duties to be conducted via phone or video chat, spiritual caregivers try to adapt without changing what works most
By Cathryn J. Prince
Goldstrom (right) with his chaplain assistant in Afghanistan, Sgt David Teakell, while riding to visit military personnel at other bases and outposts in 2013. (Courtesy of Goldstrom via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 9:58 pm
Meet the rabbi who led Yom Kippur services in Saddam Hussein’s palace
A three-decade military career has taken David Goldstrom from serving in the US Navy in the Pacific, to Iraq and Afghanistan, and now a chaplain for veterans who have returned home
By Ben Sales
U.S. Army troops march in formation during a change of command ceremony, Monday, April 3, 2017, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
August 1, 2019, 4:10 am
US Army says chaplain helped rabbi harass wife of soldier — report
Woman says she received explicit messages from Tacoma Chabad rabbi, but when she turned to another rabbi on base for help, he aided effort to ostracize her instead
By JTA
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