A state-wide program of Jewish education for Jewish military personnel and their dependents and for the civilian Jewish community has been launched by Chaplain Seymour Gitin, Jewish chaplain on duty with the United States Air Force in Alaska.
A credit course in Hebrew at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and at the university’s extension branch at Elmendorf, publication of the Alaskan Jewish Chronicle, first Jewish periodical in Alaska, two Jewish libraries, two Jewish choirs and a Jewish periodical loan library are among the projects organized and directed by Chaplain Gitin, a graduate of the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion and a native of Buffalo, N. Y.
Although his primary responsibility is to serve the religious, welfare and morale needs of Jewish military personnel and their dependents at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Fort Richardson, Eilson Air Force Base, Fort Wainwright and isolated posts scattered along the Alaska coast and adjacent islands, Chaplain Gitin also serves in his leisure time as rabbi of the civilian Jewish community and of Congregation Beth Shalom in Anchor age where he supervises and teaches at a weekly religious school which has five classes and as many teachers as well as a Bar Mitzvah class.
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