Rosh Hashanah services were held at 24 overseas points and at hundreds of military installations and veterans hospitals in the United States for an estimated 150,000 Jewish service personnal in the U.S. armed forces, the National Jewish Welfare Board announced here today. Arrangements for the holiday services were made by the JWB in its 36th “Operation Rosh Hashanah”
The sound of the Shofar was heard in all areas of Korea held by the U.N. forces and services were read in front-line bunkers, open fields and in tents where soldiers and Marines carried their carbines to the services. In Heidelberg American Jewish troops participated in New Year’s services in former Nazi clubs and even at the university. Thousands of Jewish servicemen on leave in Paris found holiday arrangements awaiting them at the JWB center in that city.
Aboard the USS Wisconsin, only U.S. battleship in the NATO naval exercises off Scandinavia, a seaman conducted services for Jewish personnel. Services were also held in such widely scattered points as Britain, Italy, Austria, North Africa, the Philippines, Guam, Alaska, Iceland and the Caribbean-with prayer books, shawls, caps and kosher food sent by the JWB months in advance.
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