{"id":29979,"date":"2014-09-25T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29979"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:12:38","slug":"us-air-force-enlists-first-bearded-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/us-air-force-enlists-first-bearded-rabbi\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Enlists First Bearded Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps drowned out by other military religious issues, a few sites noted that the US Air Force recently swore in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/news\/article_cdo\/aid\/2697009\/jewish\/Chabad-Campus-Rabbi-to-Become-First-Bearded-Chaplain-in-US-Air-Force.htm\">first Jewish rabbi with a beard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rabbi Elie Estrin [made] history this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi&#8230;is set to become the first bearded chaplain in the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony [was] held <!--more-->on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the McCord Air Force Base at Fort Lewis in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US military&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/us-military-publishes-new-religious-freedom-guidance\/\">policy changes<\/a> in January 2014 &#8212; which were intended to protect religious expression in the military, including beards and clothing &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/11\/rabbi-beard-air-force-chaplain_n_5807518.html\">enabled Estrin&#8217;s path<\/a> to the chaplaincy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rabbi said that he started the process of applying for the chaplaincy the very same day he heard about the changes in January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/air-force-grants-its-first-religious.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps drowned out by other military religious issues, a few sites noted that the US Air Force recently swore in its first Jewish rabbi with a beard: Rabbi Elie Estrin [made] history this week. The Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi&#8230;is set to become the first bearded chaplain in the U.S. Air Force. The ceremony [was] held<\/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":[134,1266,912,5284,4892,39,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-29979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-beard","tag-chabad-lubavitch","tag-chaplain","tag-elie-estrin","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979","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=29979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}