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“This is the true spiritual victory over an evil empire,” said Rabbi
Jacob Goldstein, joint forces command chaplain for the National Guard
in New York, who has helped ferry religious supplies to Jewish troops
in the war.
[...]
He spent this past Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in Iraq, and was
“floored” to find kosher meals including corned beef and pastrami,
bagels and lox, cakes and doughnuts — enough that troops had
leftovers for Sukkot, which he marked by helping erect a sukkah
outside the main doors to Saddam’s main palace.
Goldstein also led High Holiday services in Saddam’s compound, a
massive area encompassing 40 buildings, gardens and lakes,
greenhouses and an opulent palace featuring hand-painted vaulted
ceilings, marble floors and gold fixtures.
“Spiritually it was uplifting to have two Torahs and be dancing in
Saddam’s palace and declaring the unity of God,” he said.
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