MRFF Op-Ed on LA Progressive: USAFA Cadet Forced to Choose Between Her Religion and Key Training Told the Issue Is “Being Jewish”
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In its latest slap in the face to its Jewish cadets, the ever-religious-diversity-challenged Air Force Academy this year scheduled its “Commandant’s Challenge,” the most important training day of the semester, on October 5, perfectly timed to fall right smack on Yom Kippur, the most solemn of all Jewish holy days, forcing Jewish cadets to choose between their religion and joining their much-preferred Christian counterparts in a training day that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) described as “key to advancement within the academy.” […]