A Rough-Ridin’ Rabbi

By Morris B. Margolies, Special to The Chronicle (of Kansas City) In the summer of 1952, peace talks between the Americans and the North Koreans were in progress at Panmunjom. I was stationed near Taegu, not too far away, as a chaplain for the Tenth Army Corps. From my headquarters I set forth every morning in a jeep on the […]

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Senator Obama, Charles Payne, and Liberation

Senator Barack Obama’s supposed “kerfuffle” over his great-uncle’s participation in the liberation of Buchenwald (he said Auschwitz) offers a unique opportunity to revisit more history of liberation during World War II. Regardless of where one sits politically, I think it is in bad form for pundits to start trying to diminish the role that Charles Payne, his great-uncle, played in […]

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Air Force Rabbi Remembers Shoah, Serves Airmen

From Media-Newswire.com: The candle flame danced a slow mesmerizing dance as it flickered from one side of the wick to the next. The light softly illuminated his face as his silhouette became a portion of the projection behind him – images of Holocaust victims. Soft-spoken yet with a stern demeanor, Rabbi ( Capt. ) Raphael Berdugo’s eyes glistened as he […]

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Jewish Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Speak

From the Wisconsin Jewish Chronical ‘Grateful that I am alive’: Iraq war veterans reflect By Andrea Waxman of Chronicle Staff Racine resident Tom Rodgers, a veteran of the Marine Corps and of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, would “absolutely” make the same decision and join the Marines again, if he had it to do over. “It is such a […]

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Faith Amid Conflict

from the Jerusalem Post Two years ago, Andrew Shulman’s designated location on Shabbat mornings was the auditorium of the Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel in Malden, a suburb of Boston. Shoulders covered by a tallit, Shulman followed the service in the siddur, lending his deep, ebullient voice in prayer and song. Before services ended and everybody left for lunch, Shulman would […]

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