The U.S. Army’s top chaplain applauded the three-dozen rabbis serving as chaplains for Jewish troops while attending the dedication ceremony of a new Torah scroll at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, Texas.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Solhjem, the U.S. Army’s chief of chaplains, joined the Bliss Religious Support Office (RSO), and the Jewish community at Fort Bliss and El Paso, at the April 26 gathering before the Torah scroll was installed in the newly renovated synagogue at Fort Bliss, called Chapel 3.
He said “a critical element in the founding of our nation is the diversity that we see in our faith communities. The inclusivity of our faith and beliefs are represented in the military by the chaplains who serve this great army and by the communities that gather within our army family.”