(JTA) — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq.

Witnesses said there had been a wave of air strikes and that former President Saddam Hussein's palace had been hit ... Speicher army base to the north of Tikrit on Monday, despite coming under ...