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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Activist Charges Iowa VA Hospital Proselytized Jewish Patient
In Iowa City, Iowa today, Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, will hold a press conference to focus on alleged religious discrimination and Christian proselytizing at the Iowa City Veterans Hospital & Clinics (press release). Weinstein says that Orthodox Jewish veteran David Miller has been subjected to evangelization and anti-Semitism at the hospital. He was denied kosher food and was visited by a chaplain who tried to convince Miller that he needed Jesus while Miller was suffering acute chest pains wired to a heart monitor.