Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner will leave for overseas shortly on a religious mission to visit the Jewish chaplains and Jewish men in service in the various theatres of operation, it was announced yesterday by Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Rabbi Brickner’s trip will be made with the official authorization of the War Department and the approval of President Roosevelt, and he will be accompanied by a military aide.
Rabbi Brickner is administrative chairman of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities, through which the Jewish Welfare Board recruits and gives ecclesiastical endorsement to rabbis who desire to serve as Jewish chaplains in the Army or Navy. The Committee is made up of rabbinical representatives of Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Jewry.
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