Last month, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Jacob Goldstein planted the seeds of a Jewish infrastructure in a location most people don't think of a home to Jews: the U.S. military installation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The expectation, said the Army colonel and chaplain, is that Jewish life there will only expand.
Bringing Judaism to Guantanamo Bay Entails Doing Whatever’s Necessary
Last month, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Jacob Goldstein planted the seeds of a Jewish infrastructure in a location most people don’t think of a home to Jews: the U.S. military installation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The expectation, said the Army colonel and chaplain, is that Jewish life there will only expand.
The Army asked Goldstein to spend the Hebrew month of Tishrei at the base ñ which provides support to naval and Coast Guard operations in the Caribbean, houses the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo and is the location of the military’s detention center for suspected terrorists ñ to do all he could in assisting the installation’s Jewish soldiers.
“The military does a lot to support the needs of its soldiers,” said Goldstein, who at the Army’s behest has led services and counseled Jewish personnel in South Korea, Iraq and Bosnia.
While at Gitmo, as the military refers to Guantanamo, the colonel assisted the Joint Task Force chaplain there to provide religious services for the Jewish High Holidays. But Goldstein, a native New Yorker and Chasid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory, didn’t stop spreading Jewish pride anyway he could.
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