{"id":31306,"date":"2015-04-07T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31306"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:28:56","slug":"jewish-troops-celebrate-passover-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/jewish-troops-celebrate-passover-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Troops Celebrate Passover in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/afghanseder.jpg\" alt=\"Passover Seder in Afghanistan\" \/><br \/>\nUS troops stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, were recently given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/159140\/jewish-service-members-keep-their-faith-while-deployment-afghanistan\">opportunity to celebrate Passover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deployed Jewish service members in Afghanistan continue to celebrate their traditions by observing holidays, adhering to dietary laws, and practicing their faith&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The celebration was led by a chaplain from nearby Bagram AB, Army Chaplain (Capt) Karyn Berger, is one of only two female Rabbis in the US Army.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that Navy LtCmdr Mahmoud Ahmed, who is Muslim, also attended the Jewish Seder.<\/p>\n<p>The US military <!--more-->often does an admirable job of providing for troops&#8217; religious exercise, even when they are deployed to combat regions. Unlike Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein or his <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/31\/mrff-opposes-troops-religious-freedom-at-easter\/\">assistant Chris Rodda<\/a>, the US military has not considered the publication of non-Muslim religious celebrations to be a &#8220;provocation&#8221; of America&#8217;s adversaries, despite the fact that celebrations like this took place in a country in which not being a Muslim is practically a capital crime. Rather, it is a model of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Related stories at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdnews.com\/features\/neighbors\/passover-seder-being-prepared-for-jewish-military-1.457388\">JDNews<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/2015\/03\/passover-latkes-in-goebbels-castle\/\">Jews in Green<\/a>.<\/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>US troops stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, were recently given the opportunity to celebrate Passover: Deployed Jewish service members in Afghanistan continue to celebrate their traditions by observing holidays, adhering to dietary laws, and practicing their faith&#8230; The celebration was led by a chaplain from nearby Bagram AB, Army Chaplain (Capt) Karyn Berger, is one of only two female Rabbis in [&#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":[58,1763,5284,175,44,39,2519,5066,5067,85,2,5218,7,4247,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-31306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-bagram","tag-chaplain","tag-chris-rodda","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-kandahar","tag-karyn-berger","tag-mahmoud-ahmed","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-passover","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306","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=31306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}