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Photos: Rabbi Stern in Sworn In to the Chaplaincy



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8 Comments

  • Dr. Levi A. Reiter

    Yasher Koach !!!

    This is a real Kiddush HaShem.

    I know you’re parents are kvelling w/ Nachas.

  • 694 M

    A Big Kiddush Hashem
    The Sterns are always dynamic in spreading and preserving yiddishkeit, they are the forefront and expertise in Halacha for true Torah values bringing peace into the World and true Torah Values to all ,
    Much Hatzlacha
    Moshiach now !

  • do tell

    his parent is right there kvelling, but i’m not exactly sure what there is to kvell about. a chaplain gets to keep his facial hair. goldstien – also depicted – has kept his beard for decades.

    so what has been accomplished?

  • to #5

    Beards are NOT permitted in the US Armed Forces. When the ban on facial hair went into effect, Col. Goldstein was given a waiver to keep his beard.

    No Chaplain since then has been permitted to wear a beard, and Stern had to work for 2 years to be allowed to serve with a beard.

    Is that not an accomplishment??

  • Milhouse

    #5, Where have you been? Goldstein was grandfathered in when the regulations changed, but no new chaplains could sign up with beards. In other words a whole area of shlichus was completely closed to any Lubavitcher. Boruch Hashem the DoD has relented and allowed this, and thereby opened the door for more people to apply.