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By
end of 1917
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was asked to recruit rabbis to serve in
Chaplain Corps. Many Jewish doughboys had complained they had not seen one Jewish chaplain during their entire military career. Jewish volunteers accounted for 20 percent of all American land and sea forces.
The War Department had authorized one rabbi for every 1,200 men, but it was estimated recruitment only amounted to one per 10,000 Jews. In order to expand this coverage,
JWB furnished a Ford automobile for each rabbi, making them, as one chaplain said,
envy of all of France."
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Don Canaan is managing editor of Israel News Faxx, located at www.israelfaxx.com, a leading, free, daily Internet publication containing news from Israel. Israelfaxx.com also contains more than 1,750 links of interest to Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers, as well as a subscription-based searchable archive of Israel News Faxx articles dating to April 1993.