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Jewish Chaplains Provide Torahs For Troops in Iraq

8/14/07 Participants in JCC Maccabi ArtsFest® in Boca Raton, Florida the first week in August dedicated the community service portion of their program to U.S. Army PFC Daniel Agami, who was tragically killed in action due to an IED attack while on patrol in northern Baghdad, Iraq on June 21, 2007. Private Agami lived in Boca Raton with his family, and had been home just a few weeks earlier.>> go to complete story

Chaplains connecting communities

6/24/07 At an age when most servicemembers have already retired, a Navy chaplain based at Camp Foster is just starting his military career.>> go to complete story

By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes

Military Chaplains Association Confers David E. White Leadership Award on Rabbi David E. Lapp

6/20/06 Rabbi David E. Lapp, who earlier this year announced his retirement as director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, was awarded the 2nd Annual David E. White Leadership Award by the Military Chaplains Association of the USA, an affiliate of the Military Officers Association of America. The honor was presented to Rabbi Lapp at the JCC Association offices on Wednesday, June 14th by the executive director, Chaplain Gary R. Pollitt, and associate executive director, Chaplain George Dobes, of the MCA. The Jewish Chaplains Council, which certifies Jewish chaplains for the US armed services and Veterans Administration and responds to the Judaic needs of Jewish service personnel worldwide, operates under the auspices of JCC Association, a New York-based nonprofit agency.
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JCC Association Names First Winner of JWB Chaplains Council Scholarship, in Bid to Enlarge Jewish Chaplaincy Corps

6/16/06 A Lt. Colonel in the US Army Chaplains Corps for 20 years, Rabbi Philip Silverstein, now chair of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, is keenly aware of the importance of providing religious leadership to troops at home and abroad, particularly those serving during wartime. Thus, when he learned of a critical shortage of Jewish chaplains throughout the US military, Rabbi Silverstein acted quickly. He pledged $60,000 in memory of his late wife, Adinah, to a scholarship program established by the Jewish Chaplains Council in an effort to provide incentive to rabbinical students to commit to the chaplaincy following ordination. >> go to complete story

Second-In-Command Of JWB Jewish chaplains Council Marks 50 Years Of Rabbinic Career Devoted To Chaplaincy

4/3/06 The deputy director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, Rabbi Nathan Landman, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the annual convention of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis, to be held in San Diego, June 18-19. The JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, which certifies Jewish chaplains for the U.S. armed services and Veterans Administration and responds to the Judaic needs of Jewish service personnel worldwide, operates under the auspices of JCC Association, a New York-based nonprofit agency. >> go to complete story

JCC Association Names New Director of JWB Jewish chaplains Council Amid Plan to Expand Support for Military Families

3/15/06 Rabbi Harold Robinson, a Rear Admiral who serves as the Navy’s Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters, as Director of Religious Ministries in the Marine Corps Reserve, and as a congregational rabbi in Shreveport, Louisiana, will be the next director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, said Allan Finkelstein, president of JCC Association. JCC Association’s JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is accredited by the U.S. government to serve the religious and social needs of Jewish military personnel, their families, and patients in VA hospitals. Rabbi Robinson will work as a consultant to JCC Association following a formal announcement expected at the agency’s Biennial in Philadelphia, May 7-10, joining the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council full time in September. He replaces Rabbi David Lapp, who announced his retirement last month after 25 years.
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JCC Association's JWB Jewish chaplains Council Readies Seder Kits For Troops In Remote And Battle-Torn Regions

3/15/06 Passover, the most widely celebrated of all festivals on the Jewish calendar, begins this year at sundown on Wednesday, April 12. While Jews worldwide gather around Seder tables, the holiday can be a trying time for thousands of U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen and women unable to join their families and loved ones. Reaching out to these isolated Jews stationed at bases at home and overseas, JCC Association, through the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, is preparing its annual spring shipment of individual Seder kits and finalizing travel arrangements for the military chaplains who will spend an entire month abroad, leading communal Seders and alleviating the loneliness, particularly acute during holiday seasons, that accompanies active combat duty. >> go to complete story

Rabbi David E. Lapp Retires After Quarter-Century at Helm of JWB Jewish chaplains Council

2/1/06 The long, distinguished career of Rabbi David E. Lapp, is coming to a close amid tributes and fanfare marking his retirement as director of the Jewish Chaplains Council of the Jewish Welfare Board. The board, which certifies Jewish chaplains for the US armed services and Veterans Administration and responds to the Judaic needs of Jewish service personnel worldwide, operates under the auspices of JCC Association, a New York-based nonprofit agency.
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Jewish chaplains Spread Out for the High Holidays. JWB Jewish chaplains Council Sends Support Materials and Holiday Treats Provided by Generous Donors

9/26/05 As the holiest time in the Jewish calendar approaches, eight Jewish chaplains are flying to the Middle East to provide additional spiritual support to the approximately 600 Jewish military personnel deployed there. The chaplains will conduct services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in different locations in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Qatar, bringing to the tired soldiers a sense of the awe and transcendence of these days of reflection and renewal.
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JWB Jewish chaplains Council Director Rabbi David Lapp to Attend Dedication Ceremony at Base in Ramstein, Germany
Set for Tuesday, September 20, 11am

9/02/05 In what is certain to come as welcome news to the Jewish and Muslim military personnel and their families who are stationed on Air Force and Army installations in the southwest corner of Germany, the U.S. Air Force will soon unveil separate facilities for their communities to conduct worship on its main European base in Ramstein, Germany. Both a synagogue and Muslim prayer room have been created in an annex to the base’s South Chapel, which also contains space for interfaith religious and educational fellowship. With the Jewish High Holy Days to begin with the eve of Rosh Hashanah on Monday, October 3, the completion of the South Chapel Annex couldn’t be better timed.>> go to complete story

The Jewish Publication Society and JWB Jewish Chaplains Council send 2,750 pocket editions of The Book of Psalms and The Torah: The Five Books of Moses to U.S. Military Personnel overseas

5/12/05 The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and JCC Association's JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is renewing a decades-old partnership to provide essential Jewish books to U.S. service personnel. In the next week, 2,750 copies of The Book of Psalms and The Torah: The Five Books of Moses will be shipped to Jewish U.S. service personnel serving in the Middle East and elsewhere overseas, and in the U.S. to arrive in time for Shavuot, the holiday which celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people.   At no time since the Vietnam War have so many Jewish men and women served on active duty in our country's Armed Forces. >> go to complete story

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Jewish chaplains Spread Out for the High Holidays: JWB Jewish chaplains Council Sends Support Materials and Holiday Treats

5/17/04 As the holiest time in the Jewish calendar approaches, Jewish chaplains are flying to the Middle East to provide spiritual support to the approximately 600 Jewish military personnel deployed there. The chaplains will conduct services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in different locations in Iraq, bringing to the tired soldiers a sense of the awe and transcendence of these days of reflection and renewal. JCC Association’s JWB Jewish Chaplains Council has already shipped pocket calendars for 5765, High Holiday prayer books, taleisim and yarmulkes, along with pamphlet literature, as requested by the chaplains. >> go to complete story

JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Sends Soldiers Hebrew Bibles in Honor of Shavuot

5/17/04 In honor of Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council has sent 1000 copies of the Holy Scriptures to active-duty chaplains all over the world for distribution to Jewish service men and women. During this time of conflict, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council felt a gift that has consoled and inspired so many to be particularly appropriate. » go to complete story

JWB Jewish Chaplains Council’s Nathan Landman Selected as Chaplain of the Year

JCC Association is proud to announce that JWB Jewish Chaplains Council Deputy Director Rabbi Nathan M. Landman has been selected to receive the New York Board of Rabbis Zagelbaum Chaplain of the Year Award. The award will be presented on January 20 at the Board of Rabbis’ headquarters at 13 E. 39 Street, New York, New York. Endowed by Mrs. Mildred Zagelbaum of Great Neck, New York and her son, the award highlights the important work of chaplains in providing solace and comfort.

Rabbi Landman has served as a chaplain in one form or another since the 1950s. He was an active duty Air Force chaplain in France, Germany, and Spain, as well as in the United States, from 1963 to 1981. Since his retirement from the Air Force, he has provided chaplaincy service to more than twenty health care facilities and homes for the aged all over the New York metro area.

In 1985, Rabbi Landman joined the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council staff, editing the quarterly Chaplines, which is distributed to all Jewish chaplains and certified Jewish military lay leaders throughout the world. He also supervises the lay leader certification program and co-ordinates lay-leader training workshops annually. JCC Association's JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is the only government-accredited agency to certify Jewish chaplains for the American armed forces.

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