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December 26, 2019
How a Jewish Boxer and a Catholic Priest Celebrated Christmas at the Battle of Guadalcanal
“Silent night” and “My Yiddishe Mama.”
On December 24, 1942, the Jewish boxing champion Barney Ross and Reverend Fred Gehring—a Catholic priest from Brooklyn, NY—organized an ecumenical midnight mass for Christian marines in the midst of the battle of Guadalcanal. Ross, whose European-born father had wanted him to be a talmudic scholar, had retired from boxing before the war began. Having enlisted in the Marines, he struck up a close friendship with Gehring, who was in his unit. Ron Grossman tells the story:
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How a Jewish Boxer and a Catholic Priest Celebrated Christmas at the Battle of Guadalcanal
“Silent night” and “My Yiddishe Mama.”