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Article: Comforts of home Nicolet graduate is spending Jewish High Holidays in Iraq as an Air Force chaplain
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- September 18, 2009
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By MEG JONES
Among the gear in the duffel bags Michael Bram brought to Iraq
this month were items not found in many airmen's luggage -- a shofar
and tallit made of camouflage-patterned cloth.
The 1994 Nicolet High School graduate is a rabbi serving in the
Air Force chaplain corps. He recently began a four-month tour to
Iraq in time for the Jewish High Holidays, which begin with Rosh
Hashanah at sundown Friday and end 10 days later on Yom Kippur.
Bram will lead services for Jewish airmen serving at Joint Base
Balad in central Iraq. He'll blow his foot-long shofar, a trumpet
made from a ram's horn, and wear the tallit, a prayer shawl, which
he brought with him from Ramstein Air Force Base in ...