Posted on 10/26/23
Rabbi Zvi Goldberg and Rabbi Baruch Beyer welcome USAF Chaplain Captain Alan "Avromi" Kahan to discuss the halachic ramifications of keeping kosher in the military.
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The discussion will cover a range of topics, including:
• What is it like to keep kosher in the U.S. Air Force?
• What kind of food is available?
• How is the food packed? Under what certification?
• What if prepackaged food is not available?
• Is it more difficult overseas?
• What about keeping other mitzvos, like Shabbos, lulav, esrog, matzah?
• YOUR questions!
We will also review wartime halachos from the Chofetz Chaim.
Alan "Avromi" Kahan is a Jewish chaplain with the U.S. Air Force. He joined the Rhode Island Air National Guard in 2012 and was selected for active duty in 2014. Since then, he has had multiple assignments throughout the U.S. and Europe and has been deployed multiple times to the southwest Asia region. He is currently serving as a Deputy Wing Chaplain in the 70th ISR Wing based in Maryland.
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