{"id":10622,"date":"2011-04-07T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2011-04-04T01:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T06:35:49","slug":"jewish-chaplain-candidate-sues-army-over-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/jewish-chaplain-candidate-sues-army-over-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Chaplain Candidate Sues Army over Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chabad.org updates the case of Rabbi Menachem M. Stern, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/rabbi-sues-army-over-beard\/\">previously mentioned<\/a>, who\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/news\/article_cdo\/aid\/1482232\/jewish\/Beard-Presents-Hairy-Predicament.htm\">suing the US Army over its policy<\/a> prohibiting his service due to his beard.\u00a0 The Army gave him a commission and then rescinded it the next day, citing an administrative error.<\/p>\n<p>Stern&#8217;s case cites the fact the military has allowed three Sikhs and one Muslim to have grooming waivers even as his application <!--more-->was denied.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney Nathan Lewin, who represented Air Force chaplain Mitchell Geller in his successful 1976 effort to maintain a previously-sanctioned beard, is serving as Stern\u2019s counsel. He believes the Army has a weak case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven its acceptance of Sikhs and Muslims with beards and its policy of allowing beards to be grown after initial entry on service, I see little wiggle-room for the Army,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chabad.org updates the case of Rabbi Menachem M. Stern, previously mentioned, who\u00a0is suing the US Army over its policy prohibiting his service due to his beard.\u00a0 The Army gave him a commission and then rescinded it the next day, citing an administrative error. Stern&#8217;s case cites the fact the military has allowed three Sikhs and one Muslim to have grooming [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88,5284,39,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}