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Lag B’Omer with Jewish soldiers — at the pyramids

A U.S. Army transport plane flies over the pyramids in Egypt in 1943. (Keystone/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army chaplain Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz ordered the driver of his military transport truck to pull over for a group of uniformed women who were hitchhiking. “We want to go as far as… Read more »