Five Rabbis Receive First Permanent Commissions As Chaplains in Regular Army

For the first time in the history of the U.S. Army rabbis have been granted permanent commissions as chaplains in the Regular Army, the Jewish Welfare Board’s committee on Army and Navy religious activities announced today. Five rabbis received commissions.

The five, all of whom served with the Army overseas during the war, are: Ralph H. Blumenthal, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Max A. Braude, of Chicago; Edward Ellenbogen, of Winston-Salem, N.C.; Philip Pincus, of Albuquerque, N.M.; and Samuel Rosen, of Brooklyn.

The J.W.B. also announced that the War Department has accepted its offer to assist in bringing home the remains of American war dead. The J.W.B. has offered to advise the Army of all matters pertaining to Jewish religious observance in connection with moving and reburying the bodies of Jewish dead.