{"id":11235,"date":"2011-05-31T01:13:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T06:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:15:21","slug":"army-chaplain-receives-2011-hoeing-memorial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/army-chaplain-receives-2011-hoeing-memorial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Chaplain Receives 2011 Hoeing Memorial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Col) Nosson Sachs <a href=\"http:\/\/thejewishchronicle.net\/view\/full_story\/13349511\/article-Local-military-chaplain-wins-Rabbinical-Council-award?\">received the 2011 Chaplain Joseph I. Hoeing Memorial award<\/a> in May from the Rabbinical Council of America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The award, according to the RCA, recognizes an individual chaplain who, \u201cthrough his unselfish concern for the spiritual needs and welfare of all military personnel, embodies the dignity of Judaism and brings honor to the Torah and glory to his people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Sachs was specifically honored <!--more-->for his work with military marriages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sachs&#8230;is being honored for his contributions to the Army\u2019s Strong Bonds program, a relationship enrichment program designed to combat domestic violence and divorce in military families. RCA officials say Sachs created \u201cthe single largest and most effective\u201d Strong Bonds programs in the Army during his recent five-year recall to active duty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The Jewish organization and Rabbi might be surprised to hear Strong Bonds is actually\u00a0&#8220;an evangelistic Christian program operating under the guise of&#8230;family wellness and marriage training,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/06\/support-for-military-marriages\/\">conspiracy theories from the MRFF&#8217;s Chris Rodda<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Sachs said he would take the opportunity to highlight the need for more Jewish Chaplains in the US military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/local-military-chaplain-wins-rabbinical-council-award\/\">Army Chaplaincy blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Col) Nosson Sachs received the 2011 Chaplain Joseph I. Hoeing Memorial award in May from the Rabbinical Council of America. The award, according to the RCA, recognizes an individual chaplain who, \u201cthrough his unselfish concern for the spiritual needs and welfare of all military personnel, embodies the dignity of Judaism and brings honor to the Torah and [&#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":[88,5284,175,1424,39,2,5218,7,1767,1768,10,616,122],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-chris-rodda","tag-conspiracy","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nosson-sachs","tag-rabbinical-council-of-america","tag-religion","tag-strong-bonds","tag-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","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=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}