{"id":14620,"date":"2011-12-12T00:26:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2011-12-12T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T03:26:38","slug":"newest-jewish-chaplain-sports-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/newest-jewish-chaplain-sports-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Jewish Chaplain Sports Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/jewish-chaplain-gets-waiver-for-beard\/\">Rabbi Menachem Stern<\/a> officially became Chaplain (1LT) Stern after being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/army-bearded-rabbi-sworn-in-as-chaplain-120911w\/\">sworn in last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stern is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch movement of Judaism, whose rabbis are prohibited from shaving their beards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2011\/12\/08\/chaplains-commend-army-chief-of-chaplains-for-decision-concerning-rabbi\/\">decision was commended<\/a> by Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This decision by the Army chief of chaplains is an example of protecting religious liberty by providing for the religious support of a significant number of Jewish troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Menachem Stern officially became Chaplain (1LT) Stern after being sworn in last week. Stern is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch movement of Judaism, whose rabbis are prohibited from shaving their beards. The Army&#8217;s decision was commended by Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty: This decision by the Army chief of chaplains is an [&#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":[88,5284,1998,39,911,2,17,10,171,1997],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-chaplain-alliance-for-religious-liberty","tag-jewish","tag-menachem-stern","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-ron-crews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","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=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}