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Remembrance Day, minus religion: Why faith-based prayers are nixed from Canadian military ceremonies this year

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JL;DR SUMMARY Canadian Armed Forces have adopted more secular practices for Remembrance Day events, discontinuing faith-specific prayers to ensure inclusivity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish EducationInterfaith DialogueJewish Military ServiceInclusivityRemembrance DayCanadian JewrySecularizationCanadian Armed ForcesRabbi Reuven BulkaKindness Week

Places mentioned

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"It was the last time the beloved Ottawa clergyman would deliver his trademark rousing speech known as the benediction, part of Canada's official Remembrance Day ceremony."
Ontario, Canada
"So yes, there is Kindness Week. But what this is really doing is every couple of weeks in, every couple of weeks out, we have the students of a school that was so precious to Rabbi Boca continuing that legacy on that very regular basis."
Petawawa, Ontario, Canada
"Captain Rabbi Arnold Notaglogauer, a Jewish leader who was a member of the Jewish military chaplain serving at CFB Petawawa, and John Mitzmacher, the principal at Ottawa's Community Jewish School, who's overseeing a new curriculum unit honoring Bolka's legacy of kindness."
Israel
"or whether they'll be focused instead on hearing some words of guidance and comfort as we navigate Remembrance Day against the backdrop of a much more current war, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas after the October 7, 2023 massacre, of 1,200 Israelis, and the resulting explosion of anti-Semitism in our streets in response to Israel's military invasion of Gaza."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"or whether they'll be focused instead on hearing some words of guidance and comfort as we navigate Remembrance Day against the backdrop of a much more current war, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas after the October 7, 2023 massacre, of 1,200 Israelis, and the resulting explosion of anti-Semitism in our streets in response to Israel's military invasion of Gaza."
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"and when I had two very important incidents that happened within the Canadian Armed Forces, Rabbi Boca said, OK, so I'm going to come and visit you and actually came and spent a week with me at one of my bases in Winnipeg."
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