In anticipation of the tenth anniversary of 9-11, the “Chaplain of Ground Zero,” Colonel Jacob Z. Goldstein, spoke to a crew from Jewish.TV about his memories of the time he spent at Ground Zero.
Colonel Jacob Z. Goldstein was with one of the first military units to arrive at the site of the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I got there right before the second tower collapsed,” recalls Goldstein in a video interview with Jewish.TV, “and that’s where I spent the next four and a half months of my life.”
In this series of short interview clips, Goldstein recalls amazing, firsthand stories of blowing shofar at Ground Zero, making a sukkah on a two and a half ton Army truck, and leading a family in saying kaddish for a loved one who died in the attack.
The series of fourteen brand new and exclusive interview clips is aptly titled The Rabbi of Ground Zero: A Chaplain’s Recollections of 9-11. Episode titles include A Yarmulka in the Rubble, Kaddish at Ground Zero and 9-11 and the Holocaust.
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I met Rabbi Goldstein when on emergency orders he conducted Jewish services for Jewish personnel at AFCENT The Netherlands. What a great rabbi! I remember him well.
Sam Lauber
Can you please put all of the videos of Colonel Goldstein in one place, one after the other.
We shall never forget. Great work Colonel Goldstein.