{"id":17734,"date":"2012-05-16T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17734"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:14:12","slug":"us-military-rabbi-ministers-across-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/us-military-rabbi-ministers-across-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Rabbi Ministers Across Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DoD article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodlive.mil\/index.php\/2012\/04\/rabbi-ministers-across-afghanistan\/\">highlights US Army Chaplain (LtCol) Avi Weiss<\/a>, a chaplain who &#8220;FOB hops&#8221; around Afghanistan as the only Jewish religious leader in the theater.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAttempting to keep traditional Jewish laws is difficult in this environment,\u201d said Weiss, explaining the shortage of rabbis in the military. \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to the military that it <!--more-->does a lot to help someone practice their faith, but it\u2019s still not necessarily the choice environment for someone who wants to live a certain way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/us-military-receives-torah-scroll-in-afghanistan\/\">military atheists have complained<\/a> that flaunting the presence of American Jews in Afghanistan may hurt the American mission, it actually does the opposite:\u00a0 As Chaplain Weiss says, it is a credit to the US military that it works so hard to ensure the religious freedom of its troops.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an example other nations can <em>emulate <\/em>&#8212; not something the US needs to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DoD article highlights US Army Chaplain (LtCol) Avi Weiss, a chaplain who &#8220;FOB hops&#8221; around Afghanistan as the only Jewish religious leader in the theater. \u201cAttempting to keep traditional Jewish laws is difficult in this environment,\u201d said Weiss, explaining the shortage of rabbis in the military. \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to the military that it<\/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":[58,2311,5284,960,39,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-17734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-avi-weiss","tag-chaplain","tag-fob","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734","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=17734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}