U. S. Navy's Eight Jewish Chaplains
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
science teacher.
Chaplain James Mark Lebeau,
born in Akron. is at Camp
Pendelton, the Marine Corps base
in Southern California. He attend-
ed the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Lebeau, live in Akron. His
wife is the former Marcia Ceil
Greenman of Buffalo. N.Y. The
Lebeaus have two children.
At the chaplaincy school is Lt.
James Lewis Apple, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Apple of Hazle-
ton, Pa., where he was born. He
was graduated from the Jewish
Institute of Religion in 1965. His
wife is the former Judith
Schwartzman of Cincinnati. They
also have two children.
Chaplain Kenneth J. Weiss, of
Los Angeles, and his wife, Mrs.
Sue Weiss, are at the Naval Air
Station at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
He entered on active duty in 1968
after attending Hebrew Union Col-
lege and the Jewish Institute of
Religion.
Chaplain Stephen David Frank-
lin, of Cincinnati, is at the Naval
Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla.
He began active duty in 1969 after
rabbinical studies in Jerusalem,
Hebrew Union College and the
Jewish Institute of Religion.
Chaplain Daniel Alan Roberts,
born in Plainsville. O., is at the
Naval Training Center in San
Diego, Calif. His wife is the for-
mer Phyllis Goodman of Warren,
0. He was graduated from Heb-
rew Union College in 1969 and
joined the service.
Chaplain Bernard Frankel, of
Bountiful, Utah, began active duty
last year. He is with the fleet in
Yokusuka, Japan. Before joining
the Navy he served a congrega-
tion in Salt Lake City. He was
graduated in 1963 from the Jew-
ish Institute of Religion.
This report cannot close with-
out recalling that Lt. Frankel is
the promulgator of the "Jewish
ship" — the USS Bronstein. It
is a destroyer escort and the
second U.S. Navy ship to bear
the name of Ben Richard Bron-
stein, a lieutenant, junior grade,
who died in action on board the
USS Jacob Jones In World War
II. The first Bronstein was com-
missioned in 1943 and, after
serving with distinction for the
remainder of that war, was
presented in 1952 to Uruguay.
No more than a few Jews have
ever served on board the Bron-
stein but nevertheless it has be-
come known as the "Jewish ship."
Yellow mogen davids decorate
its torpedo tubes. The ship's audio
system plays the melody "Hava
Nagila" when the Br onstein
comes alongside another vessel.
The ship's crew proudly calls It
the "Kosher Cruiser," and since
the ship's movements have been
long and varied the crew calls
itself "the wandering Israelites."
Our Navy's chaplains corps
marks its 195th anniversary Nov.
28. To broaden public knowledge
of the observance, the Navy has
issued a comprehensive news kit
that reflects steady hands are at
the tillers to help keep the three
major religions in the United
States democratically proud of the
Navy's chaplaincy.
The blue and white cover of the
kit shows an opened ark with
facing lions on
,
two Torahs i .
alongsicl t w o
o t her illustra-
tions symboliz-
ing the Catholic
a n d Protestant
faiths.
Approximately
1,000 chaplains
are on active
duty in the Navy
Polakoff
at present, serv-
ing at Naval, Marine and Coast
Guard installations and aboard
hundreds of ships.
Of these, eight are Jewish,
about 280 are Roman Catholic,
four are Eastern Orthodox and the
remainder are Protestant.
Among the seven photographs
included in the news kit is one
showing a Seder service aboard
the antisubmarine warfare sup-
port aircraft carrier USS Kear-
sarge somewhere In the Pacific
last April. The caption reports
"a group of Jewish personnel,
led by Lay Leader Ed Leslie, Egyptian Overflights Along Canal
gather for the traditional meal."
Candles and boxes of matzos Raise Israeli Protests With the UN
TEL AVIV — (JTA) — Israelis several consecutive nights without
and a bottle of wine are seen
on the table. Leslie wears a were still puzzling today over the casualties or damage.
tallis and a yarmulka. The sea- reason for three Egyptian over-
The area had been relatively
men appear either in white yar- flights of Israeli positions along quiet in recent weeks, and Leban-
mulkas or Navy caps. No head the Suez Canal in the past 24 ese farmers resumed cultivation
hours.
is bare.
of their land near the border.
In the kit is a statement on the
The flights Sunday and Monday
The deaths of six Arab guerillas
significance of the Navy Chap- brought stiff Israeli protest and in the Gaza Strip last week were
laincy by Chief of Chaplains, Rear formal complaints lodged with the reported by military authorities.
Admiral Francis L. Garrett, a UN Truce Supervision Organiza- Three killed in a clash with an
Methodist from Greeneville, South tion (UNTSO).
Israeli patrol were identified as
Carolina.
There was no repetition of the members of the Popular Front for
James D. Pfannensteil, a lieu- flights Tuesday and no indication the Liberation of Palestine. Two
tenant commander in the Chap- that they were anything more than others were wounded and cap-
lains Corns, and his aides aided technical violations of the cease tured. One Israeli soldier was
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in fire.
slightly wounded in the encounter.
Three other guerrillas, believed
obtaining specific information on
The Egyptian Sukhoi-7 fighter-
the Jewish chaplains. He recom- bombers did not attack and were to be members of El Fatah, were
found
dead in a Gaza refugee
mended for "useful" reference not fired upon by Israeli forces,
"Rabbis in Uniform." This work who are apparently under orders camp. All were on the wanted list.
They are believed to have been
was edited by Chaplain Louis Bar- not to shoot unless shot at._
ish, of the U.S. Army and pub-
The nationality of the Pilots is murdered by a rival organization.
lished by Jonathan David (1962). not known. - The Israeli communi-
Currently, Commander Pfannen- que referred to UAR — meaning Bonn Radio Newsman
steil said, the Navy's senior Jew- Egyptian — planes.
Assailed for Making
ish chaplain is Captain Samuel
According to some observers,
Sobel who is the District Chap-
Anti-Semitic Statements
the
overflights
were
intended
to
lain of the Fifth Naval District
BONN (JTA) — The Israel Em-
in Norfolk, Va. Captain Sobel. a impress young Egyptian officers, bassy has protested to the West
who
are
restive
over
the
cease
native of Greensboro, N.C.. had
German Foreign Office over anti-
served as district chaplain in fire, that Egypt is alert and un- Semitic statements made recently
in its attitude toward
Washington, D.C. He joined the bending
by the head of the Middle East
Israel.
Navy in 1945 and saw service in
Such demonstrations are consid- desk of the semi-official radio
the Korean War. For his excep-
necessary for home consump- station "Deutsche Welle" (Ger-
tionally meritorious service as Ex- ered
because the post-Nasser re- man Wave). The foreign office
executive Director of the Armed tion
gime of Anwar Sadat is far from promised to investigate.
Forces Chaplains Board in 1965-
The radio station is financed by
firmly entrenched, Israeli
68, he was awarded the Legion being
sources said.
the German Ministry of Interior.
of Merit. Captain Sobel was grad-
Other observers belie v e the Its Mid East chief, Dr. Herbert
uated with a Bachelor of Arts Egyptians were trying, to show that Reichard, was quoted by a Saudi
degree from Yeshiva College in they accept the cease fire only in Arabian newspaper as having in-
1941, with a Master of Arts from its narrowest sense, namely that dicated his approval of Hitler's
Columbia University in 1944 and anything is permissible, short of method of dealing with Jews.
from the Jewish Institute of Re- shooting.
The newspaper, Al Medina Al
ligion in 1945.
Still another view holds that the Munwara, prominently featured
The other seven chaplains are overflights were ordered to counter an interview with Dr. Reichard
lieutenants. Two of them are with alleged reconnaisance flights over made during his recent visit to
the Marines, two with the Navy's Egyptian positions by U.S. high- Arab countries and carried a
air sector, two with the fleet and altitude U-2 planes. Egypt has pro- photograph of the German offi-
one is in the chaplains school in tested formally to the U.S. A cial.
Newport, R.I., which helps clergy. spokesman in Cairo claimed Mon-
According to the paper, Reich-
men to make the transition from day that the U-2s were photo- ard declared, "As a German
civilian to military life.
graphing Egyptian positions and speaking to an Arab, let me tell
Of these lieutenants, five are turning the pictures over to Israel. you that the German people were
graduates of the Jewish Insti-
Apart from the overflights, there the first to recognize the impudent
tute of Religion, one is from the were no signs of unusual activity acts of the Jews and finished
Jewish Theological Seminary in the Egyptian side of the canal. them."
and one from Yeshiva Univer- The Jordanian and Syrian borders
He added, according to the pub-
sity.
also were quiet Monday, but spo- lished interview, "It is enough to
With the Marines is Chaplain radic shelling was reported along know that the founder of commu-
Simcha S. Goldman, who is at the Lebanese border. .
nism, Karl Marx, was a Jew. I am
Parris Island, South Carolina. He
Several mortar shells were glad to be the guest of a country
began active duty this year. He fired at Metulla from Lebanese (Saudi Arabia) in which there is
was born in New Orleans and at- territory Tuesday morning from not a single Jew."
Dr. Reichard also is reported to
tended Yeshiva College and the the direction of Tela village. No
Bernard Revel Graduate School of casualties were reported. Israeli have made anti-Semitic statements
in an interview on the Saarbrueck-
Yeshiva University. His wife, forces returned the fire.
Metulla has been shelled for en radio station.
Jean Ann Goldman, is a political
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 27,-1970-37
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