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Four Chaplains stamp, 1948 Four Chaplains Stamp on official first day cover, 1948 The chaplains were honored with a commemorative stamp that was issued in 1948, and was designed by Louis Schwimmer, the head of the Art Department of the New York branch of the U.S. Post Office Department (now called the USPS ). [ 47 ]
Pages in category "Jewish chaplains" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Isaac Alcalay;
This is a list of notable Jewish Americans in the U.S. military. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. Colonel Aaron Bank, founder of the Green Berets › archives › la-xpm-2004-apr-02-me-bank2-story.html; Mel Brooks, U.S. Army combat engineer during World War II who participated in the Battle of the Bulge. [1]
Alexander David Goode (May 10, 1911 – February 3, 1943) was a rabbi and a lieutenant in the United States Army.He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester during World War II.
During the torpedoing and sinking of the SS Dorchester in 1943, four American military chaplains, including a Jewish chaplain, sacrificed themselves and died in the performance of their duties. In commemoration of this, a medal was designed by the American sculptor Eugene Daub and issued by the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, the Four Chaplains ...
This list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbis who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel from the mid-17th century to present. The Hebrew title for the position, Rishon LeZion (literally "First to Zion"), has been used since the beginning of the 17th century, and is ...
Michael Adler (1868–1944), English Orthodox rabbi, an Anglo-Jewish historian and author who was the first Jewish military chaplain to the British Army to serve in time of war, serving with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during the First World War
Hirschy Zarchi is an American rabbi and shaliach for the Chabad Hasidic Jewish movement. Since 1997, he has been the founder and head of the Chabad house at Harvard University, one of the largest Chabad campus operations in the United States. He is also Jewish chaplain for students and alumni of Harvard.