A U.S. soldier who was a Black Hebrew received some Jewish burial rites after he died in Iraq. Chaplain Jacob Goldstein and Elakhaz Hacohane, the uncle of Benyahmin Ben Yahudah, presided over the July 25 ceremony in Georgia, the Forward reported.
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