User:NearTheZoo

In Washington, DC -- literally, near the National Zoo -- but my user name can take on different meanings in a city like this one.

I created the article Religious symbolism in the United States military, plus a few others that include:

TV

• A Touch Away (TV) (Israeli TV series)

Film

• Noodle (film) (Israeli film)
• Waiting for Godik (Israeli documentary)
• Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (American documentary)
• Tomorrow, the World (Film)
• Singing in the Dark (Film)
• Kazablan (Israeli play, film, and musical comedy)
• The Debt (2007 film) (Israeli film)
• The Yankles (Film)

Plays

• Tribes
• Fly

Publications

• Guide for the Halakhic Minyan (Guidebook for Jewish worship)
• The Book of Lights (novel)
• The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen (novel)

Institutions/organizations

• Washington DC Jewish Community Center
• DC Minyan (Worship service)
• Bet Mishpachah (Worship service)
• Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) (Military school)
• Faith and Politics Institute
• Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center
• National Museum of American Jewish Military History
• Latin American Rabbinical Seminary

Buildings/places

• Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal
• Wilson's Arch (Jerusalem)
• Congressional Prayer Room
• Rabbi Dr. I. Goldstein Synagogue

People

• William J. Boarman, 26th Public Printer of the United States
• Lazarre Seymour Simckes, Playwright and author
• Ayelet Menahemi, Film director
• Giora Godik, Theater producer
• Lester L. Westling, Jr., Episcopal Priest and Navy Chaplain
• Joel Swerdlow, Journalist, editor, and author
• Daniel Coughlin, 59th Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives (Expanded 5x from stub)
• Patrick J. Conroy, 60th Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Jack Moline, Rabbi (Expanded 5x from stub)
• Frederic Schwartz, Architect
• Joshua L. Goldberg, Rabbi and Navy Chaplain
• David Resnick, Israeli Architect
• Gilla Gerzon, Director, Haifa USO
• Fumanekile Gqiba, Former S. African Ambassador to Israel
• Herbert Tarr, rabbi and novelist

Positions

• Chaplain of the United States Senate (Expanded 5x from stub.)
• Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (Expanded 5x from list status.)

Memorials

• Liberation (Holocaust memorial), in Liberty State Park, New Jersey
• The Rising (9-11 memorial), in Westchester County, New York
• Empty Sky (9-11 memorial), in Liberty State Park, New Jersey
• Beirut Memorial, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Misc

• White House Hanukkah Party
• Independent minyan (Worship service category)