{"id":244,"date":"2008-10-12T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:54","slug":"jewish-trainee-case-concluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/jewish-trainee-case-concluded\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Trainee Case Concluded &#038; Commented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gNWRiNe9MMsgWg92Uqx-FWRUq3HAD93NST483\">Associated Press<\/a>, the Army has given non-judicial punishment to a soldier\u00a0who assaulted a fellow trainee (previous <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=241\">discussions<\/a>).\u00a0 The assault has been widely reported in concert with the victim&#8217;s complaints of discrimination because of his Jewish faith; however, the Army indicates there was\u00a0no evidence the incidents were related.\u00a0 Michael Weinstein disagreed, saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Handman was turned into a punching bag for the Army because of his religious faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The incidents were also reported at the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/home\/blog\/comments\/jewish_private_attacked_after_at_ftbenning_after_string_of_ant_jewish_incid\/\">Jews in Green<\/a>, where CAPT Neil Block, USN (Ret), has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/home\/blog\/comments\/jewish_private_attacked_after_at_ftbenning_after_string_of_ant_jewish_incid\/#comments\">commented<\/a>.\u00a0 He was the retired Jewish officer and local leader brought in to provide an assessment of the situation, and his comments are enlightening.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/developments-in-two-army-religious.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the Army has given non-judicial punishment to a soldier\u00a0who assaulted a fellow trainee (previous discussions).\u00a0 The assault has been widely reported in concert with the victim&#8217;s complaints of discrimination because of his Jewish faith; however, the Army indicates there was\u00a0no evidence the incidents were related.\u00a0 Michael Weinstein disagreed, saying Michael Handman was turned into a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,4,39,1510,85,2,5218,7,1509,10],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-churchandstate","tag-jewish","tag-michael-handman","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-neil-block","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}