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The Lubavitch News Service has a brief story about Cpl Dustin Schrage, a marine with 2/4 who was killed this month in Al-Anbar Province, Iraq. While the death of a service member is always tragic news, it is reassuring to know that proper kosher burial preparations were able to be arranged with the help of a Jewish chaplain.
Read moreTwo great resources for service members: Homes for Our Troops is a new nonprofit group is raising money to build houses adapted to their needs. John Gonsalves, a construction supervisor from Wareham, Massachusetts was concerned about the welfare of troops returning home with disabilities from the war on terror. Only seven weeks after Homes for Our Troops began raising money, […]
Read moreShavuot begins Tuesday evening, May 25, and continues until Thursday evening, May 27, 2004. Shavuot seems to be one of those lesser known holidays in the Jewish calendar, so for those (myself included) who could use a little more explanation, About.com has a great article about the holiday’s customs, history, and even some Shavuot recipes. For the more advanced readers, […]
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While not about Jews in the U.S. military, Howard Blum’s The Brigade tells the story of the first all Jewish military unit in modern times. The Jewish Brigade was formed by the British army with Jewish volunteers from British Palestine at the end of World War II. This is by far one of my favorite books. It is highly motivating […]
Read moreArmy Specialist Joe Kashnow (our featured Jew this month) and his wife Sarai have established the Jewish Soldier Foundation. The JSF’s mission is to “provide support, services and advocacy for and on behalf of our Jewish bretheren who have committed themselves to defending freedom, democracy, and other G-dly values.” There has been a great deal of press coverage about SPC […]
Read moreEvidently, the Army doesn’t agree with that statement. A group of World War II paratroopers planned to parachute into Normandy to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion there. Unfortunately their plans were cut short when the Army said that the men were too old to make the jump. Howard Greenberg, a Jewish soldier from the 11th Airborne who […]
Read moreA few weeks ago LTC Mitchell Ackerson, the Army’s top Jewish Chaplain in Iraq, returned home to his family in Baltimore. Rabbi Ackerson left some awfully big shoes to fill in Iraq. The Baltimore Jewish Times recently wrote an incredibly in-depth article about his adventures in Iraq and his heartwarming return to the States. This is kind of the Everything […]
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