The United States Army has called eleven Jewish chaplains to active service sine October to minister to Jewish men who have been mustered into the defense forces as a result of the federalizing of the National Guard and the adoption of the Selective Service Act, Chairman David de Sola Pool of the Committee on Chaplains and Religious Activities of the Jewish Welfare Board announced today.
Declaring this number would be considerably increased before the end of the year, Rabbi Pool urged qualified rabbis to apply for commissions. According to War and Navy Department regulations, Jewish chaplains are commissioned upon the recommendation of the Jewish Welfare Board.
The highest ranking Jewish chaplain called to active duty, Dr. Pool said, was Lt. col. Benjamin A. Tintner of New York, who has been stationed at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Others are Captain Harry Richmond, assigned to Fort Ord, Calif.; Chaplains Aryeh Lev, in the Chief of Chaplain’s Office, Washington; Bernard Segal, Fort Dix, N.J.; and Edward Ellenbogen, Chanute Field, Ill.
chaplains who have been commissioned but not yet assigned to definite posts include two brothers, Chaplains Jacob Honig of Huntington, L.I., and Emanuel Honig of Brooklyn, N.Y., Norman Siegel, of Moniticello, N.Y., Norbert L. Rosenthal of Chicago, Elias Karp of Scranton, Pa.; and Aaron Gorbaty of Cumberland, Md.
The first Jewish chaplain called to active duty by the United States Navy since the beginning of the emergency is Lt. Herbert C. Straus, who has been ordered to report to the U.S. Naval and Signal School at Los Angeles.
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