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First Jewish Congregation Organized at United States Arctic Base

February 4, 1954
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A Jewish congregation, the first in the Arctic, has been established at Thule, the U.S. Air Force base in Greenland, Rabbi Max Eichhorn, director of field operations of the National Jewish Welfare Board’s Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy, reported yesterday.

Rabbi Eichhorn, who has just returned from a Defense Department-sponsored tour of the Far East, revealed that the morale of Jewish GI’s stationed in various parts of the world is high. He made his report at a luncheon for women held by the New York City Council of the JWB. The luncheon was also addressed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

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