Rabbi Aryeh Lev, director of the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board, left this week-end on an overseas religious mission concerned with religious problems facing Jewish military personnel in Africa, the Near East and Europe. A number of problems concerning adequate coverage face the Chaplaincy Commission in the light of recently-enacted economies by the Government in the total military chaplaincy program.
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