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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Adler | Michael Adler DSO, SCF | 1868 | 1944 | English | Orthodox rabbi, an Anglo-Jewish historian and author who was the first Jewish military chaplain to the British Army to serve in time of war, serving with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during the First World War from 1915 to 1918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Adler |
| Andrew Weinstein | Revd. Andrew J. Weinstein | 1850 | 1915 | British | Anglican priest, deacon, diocesan chaplain and missionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weinstein |
| Bertram Korn | Bertram Wallace Korn, Sr. | 1918 | 1979 | American | historian and rabbi, who served in the United States Navy Chaplain Corps during World War II. Serving with the US Naval Reserve after the war, in 1975, he was promoted to Rear Admiral in the Chaplain Corps, the first Jewish chaplain to receive flag rank in any of the United States armed forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Korn |
| Marvin Tokayer | Marvin Tokayer | 1936 | n/a | American | Rabbi and author who served as a United States Air Force chaplain in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Tokayer |
| David Max Eichhorn | David Max Eichhorn | 1906 | 1986 | American | rabbi of Reform Judaism, a director for Hillel, a chaplain in the Army, an author, and an authority within Reform Judaism on the subjects of interfaith marriage and religious conversion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Max_Eichhorn |
| Arnold Resnicoff | Arnold E. Resnicoff | 1946 | n/a | American | Conservative rabbi who served as a military officer and military chaplain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Resnicoff |
| Rachel Barenblat | Rachel Barenblat, the "Velveteen Rabbi," | null | null | American | poet, rabbi, chaplain and blogger who was ordained as a rabbi in 2011 and as a spiritual director in 2012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Barenblat |
| Jacob Frankel | Jacob Frankel | 1808 | 1887 | German | rabbi who became the first official Jewish military chaplain of the United States, during the American Civil War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frankel |
| Vanessa Zoltan | Vanessa Zoltan | null | null | null | humanist chaplain who describes herself as an "atheist chaplain" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Zoltan |
| Leslie Hardman | Reverend Leslie Henry Hardman MBE HCF | 1913 | 2008 | null | Orthodox Rabbi and the first British Jewish Army chaplain to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, an experience "that made him a public figure, both within his community and outside it" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hardman |
| Sebastián de Covarrubias | Sebastián de Covarrubias | 1539 | 1613 | Spanish | lexicographer, cryptographer, chaplain and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastián_de_Covarrubias |
| Philip R. Alstat | Philip Reis Alstat | 1891 | 1976 | null | well-known American Conservative rabbi, teacher, chaplain, speaker and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_R._Alstat |
| Joshua L. Goldberg | Joshua Louis Goldberg | 1896 | 1994 | Belarusian | rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_L._Goldberg |
| Chana Timoner | Chana Timoner | 1951 | 1998 | null | first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, which she began in 1993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chana_Timoner |
| Abraham Klausner | Abraham Judah Klausner | 1915 | 2007 | null | Reform rabbi and United States Army captain and chaplain who became a “father figure” for the more than 30,000 emaciated survivors found at Dachau Concentration Camp, northwest of Munich, shortly after it was liberated on April 29, 1945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Klausner |
| Judah Nadich | Rabbi Judah Nadich | 1912 | 2007 | null | Conservative rabbi, who served congregations in Buffalo, New York and Chicago, Illinois, and later was the U.S. Army's senior Jewish chaplain in Europe while Allied forces were liberating Nazi concentration camps, and later was the President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Nadich |
| Louis Werfel | Chaplain Louis (Eliezer) Werfel | 1916 | 1943 | null | Jewish chaplain who was one of only six Jewish Chaplains and the only Orthodox Rabbi killed in action during World War II. Werfel's fellow soldiers gave him the nickname "The Flying Rabbi" because he traveled to remote locations throughout North Africa by plane | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Werfel |