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Rabbi Scott Klein serves as a U.S. Army Chaplain with the rank of Captain and is assigned to the 82nd Airborne
Division and as the Garrison Rabbi at Fort Bragg, NC - the largest military installation in the world by population.
A champion of communication, education and leadership, Rabbi Klein holds a doctorate in educational leadership. 
His rabbinical ordination is from the Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, NY. Rabbi Klein was recently featured in an article The Forward. 

Rabbi Yoni Warren, BCC joined the Navy following graduation from the Jewish Theological Seminary in May 2011. While in active service, he served first with the Marine Corps in Okinawa Japan where his duties took him across the Western Pacific and to Afghanistan. His next tour was at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. where he worked with Midshipmen from all faiths and no faiths while also serving as the rabbi for the Commodore Levy Chapel and Jewish Center.  In 2018, he was assigned as Command Chaplain aboard the USS Oak Hill, out of Norfolk VA with a deployment to the waters off Europe and the Middle East. Completing a residency in Clinical Pastoral Education, Rabbi Warren was next assigned to Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., Chaplain Warren where he was assigned to Labor and Delivery, NICU, and Pediatrics. Back to sea again, he deployed aboard the USS Harry S Truman for its 2024-5 Combat Deployment into the Red Sea. Selected to Commander Milestone, Rabbi Warren is now the Command Chaplain at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, the Navy’s only Boot Camp, where he leads the largest single religious ministry team in the Navy with 12 Chaplains, 7 Religious Program Specialists and 1 civilian in supporting 46,000 recruits each year as they transition from civilians to basically trained sailors.

Rabbi Benjamin Flax serves as the Battalion Chaplain for the 101st Engineer Battalion, Massachusetts Army National Guard, part of one of the oldest unit lineages in the United States Army. In that role, he provides religious support, pastoral care, and command advisement to Soldiers and their families in training, in the field, and through the ordinary and extraordinary stresses of military life.

In 2025, Rabbi Flax deployed to Kuwait in support of Passover, leading seders, Shabbat services, and Jewish holiday observances for service members downrange. In civilian life, he serves as the rabbi of Tifereth Israel of Winthrop, Massachusetts, where his work centers on pastoral care, Jewish teaching, lifecycle moments, and community leadership.

Rabbi Flax earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama, a master’s degree from Harvard University, rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva Pirchei Shoshanim, and a graduate certificate in Gerontology and Palliative Care from Yeshiva University. He lives in Revere, Massachusetts with his family. He is a former Executive Director of NAJC. 

About our host:

Rabbi Edward Bernstein, BCC, is the executive producer and host of NeshamaCast. He serves as Chaplain at Boca Raton Regional Hospital of Baptist Health South Florida. He is a member of the Board of Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains. Prior to his chaplain career, he served as a pulpit rabbi in congregations in New Rochelle, NY; Beachwood, OH; and Boynton Beach, FL. He is also the host and producer of My Teacher Podcast: A Celebration of the People Who Shape Our Lives.

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