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April 9, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13964&intcategoryid=4

Passover in Hussein's Palace

(JTA) Joe Berkofksy - Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson, the senior Jewish chaplain for Operation Iraqi Freedom, led seders this week for Jewish servicepeople and civilians in Saddam's former Presidential Palace in Baghdad. The Department of Defense requisitioned "seder kits" from a civilian supplier for the estimated 1,000 Jews serving in the Iraqi war effort and elsewhere. Other Jewish chaplains leading seders in military hot spots include Rabbi Shmuel Felzenberg in northern Iraq, Rabbi Mordechai Schwab in Kuwait, Rabbi Avraham Cohen in Qatar, Rabbi Kenneth Leinwand in Afghanistan, and Rabbi Brett Oxman in South Korea.

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