A Time to Reflect
by Rachel Rudman, M.A., Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
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Above image: Text on back of photograph: “Chaplain Joseph H. Freedman Hq, USAFIME, is shown blowing the ‘Shofar’ during the annual religious service in observance of Rosh-Hashana. Photo by Sgt. E.M….
Above image: The text on the back of the photograph reads, “Chaplain Nathan Landman, Air Force Jewish Chaplain for France, Spain, and Libya, examines the traditional Shofar (ram’s horn) and other High Holy Day religious equipment prior to taking off from Evreux-Fauville Air Base to Tripoli, Libya on the first leg of a 3,000 mile circuit in which he conducted eight services at five bases…
Reflecting on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—
50 years ago today
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America, recited a prayer during the March on Washington in 1963. It included:
Thou [G-d] hast endowed all men equally with the rights to live, to liberty…
Boxing at summer camp. 1933. Man in center is identified as George Young, a camp counselor. Records of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York. American Jewish Historical Society.
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