{"id":12618,"date":"2011-08-19T02:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2011-08-21T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:47:14","slug":"group-provides-holiday-supplies-for-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/group-provides-holiday-supplies-for-us-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Provides Holiday Supplies for US Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military generally does an admirable job of supporting the religious exercise of its members.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not to say it doesn&#8217;t use (or need) a little help sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Like external groups of other faiths, the Aleph Institute is organizing shipments of faith-based supplies to Jewish members of the US military around the world.\u00a0 As announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/2011\/08\/high-holiday-supplies-from-aleph\/\">Jews in Green<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are offering to ship Prayer Books &amp; Ritual Materials for the High Holidays and Sukkot FREE OF CHARGE to active duty military <!--more-->members&#8230;Please send the following information in an email to military@aleph-institute.org.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n1. Name of chaplain, lay leader or Jewish military member to whom the packages should be sent at each location&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n3. Total number of Jewish personnel to whom you will be able to distribute&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n5. Which bases or location of troops the delivery will cover (in order to prevent duplicate shipments)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aleph is even making pre-fabricated Sukkah booths available, which is not necessarily a small endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>The US military sometimes lacks specific faith resources; in other cases, individual servicemembers seek out support for their faith outside the military systems.\u00a0 (The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/kosher-troops-supports-jewish-servicemembers\/\">previously-mentioned<\/a> <em>Kosher Troops <\/em>is another example.)\u00a0 Regardless, the military protects the freedom of these members of the military, deployed at their country&#8217;s call, to obtain materials for their religious exercise.\u00a0 These organizations are to be commended for their support of the troops.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, critics might point out the US postal regulation&#8217;s prohibition on shipping &#8220;bulk materials contrary to Islam&#8221; to the AOR.\u00a0 To this point, it seems neither the USPS nor the US military has had any issue with military members requesting and receiving these religious resources, &#8220;bulk&#8221; or contrary to Islam or not.\u00a0 Religious freedom has prevailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military generally does an admirable job of supporting the religious exercise of its members.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not to say it doesn&#8217;t use (or need) a little help sometimes. Like external groups of other faiths, the Aleph Institute is organizing shipments of faith-based supplies to Jewish members of the US military around the world.\u00a0 As announced at Jews in Green, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39,1751,2,10,171,1753],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-jewish","tag-jews-in-green","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-the-aleph-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","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=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}