{"id":41965,"date":"2017-10-03T00:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T03:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41965"},"modified":"2017-10-03T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:03:00","slug":"us-army-chaplain-helps-troops-celebrate-rosh-hashanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/us-army-chaplain-helps-troops-celebrate-rosh-hashanah\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Chaplain Helps Troops Celebrate Rosh Hashanah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Maj) Andrew Shulman recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/249989\/7th-msc-chaplain-hosts-jewish-new-year-vicenza\">celebrated Rosh Hashanah<\/a> with US Army troops in Vicenza, Italy:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41966\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shulman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shulman.jpg 800w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shulman-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shulman-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Celebrating religious events &#8212; exercising religious liberty &#8212; is <!--more-->entirely consistent with service in the US military, even if some might disagree with\u00a0that religious faith or be offended by its practice.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Chaplain Shulman&#8217;s unit is actually stationed in Germany &#8212; where 80 years ago it was fatal to be Jewish.\u00a0 Other celebrations are sponsored by the US military even in Muslim-majority nations where anti-Jewish or anti-Christian (or anti-infidel, for that matter) sentiment runs high.<\/p>\n<p>The US military doesn&#8217;t do religious liberty perfectly, but the story of Chaplain Shulman is a positive example of military religious freedom in the Armed Services today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\"><\/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>Chaplain (Maj) Andrew Shulman recently celebrated Rosh Hashanah with US Army troops in Vicenza, Italy: Celebrating religious events &#8212; exercising religious liberty &#8212; is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6421,88,5284,96,44,39,2,17,10,171,2287,6422],"class_list":["post-41965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-andrew-shulman","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rosh-hashana","tag-vicenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965","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=41965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}