Monday, August 29, 2005

"Chaping" the Chaplain

Orthodox Rabbi denies he is a deserter:

Washington Post:

TORONTO -- The U.S. Army has listed Rabbi Jeffrey Goldman as a deserter, making him subject to arrest if he returns to the United States. But he maintains that he was driven out of the military chaplaincy by anti-Semitic harassment from Christian colleagues.
Goldman, 33, left Fort Stewart, Ga., in January 2002 to return to his native Canada after just one year as an Orthodox Jewish military chaplain. He said that he believes he resigned legally from the Army and that the desertion charge was a vindictive response to his allegations.

While he was posted at the Georgia base, Goldman said, he worked in a "poisonous atmosphere" created by three Christian chaplains. One of the men taunted him by displaying Nazi guard uniforms, he said. His supervising chaplain told him, "Rabbi, if you want to survive down here, this is the South, and you'd better forget you are a [expletive] Yankee rabbi from up north," Goldman said...
Goldman's complaints led to an Army inspector general's investigation. Officials at Fort Stewart declined to discuss the case or disclose the results. Goldman said the inspector general's report "was trying to make this look like I was afraid to go on deployment and I fled and used the anti-Semitic allegations to cover it up."

The army has been besieged of late of allegations by enlisted Jews of proselytizing. Now this!
posted by Yeshiva Orthodoxy
at 11:48 PM

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