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Ahh, more news about Jewish life at the Service Academies. This time I actually have some good news to report, although it’s not at the Air Force Academy. First let’s get the AFA stuff out of the way: An Air Force task force due to report on religious bias claims at the Air Force Academy had not interviewed key critics […]
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Perhaps it was in the spirit of Memorial Day, but more than a few Jewish newspapers recently had features on Jews serving in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Two in particular that I want to spotlight are from the Baltimore Jewish Times and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. The Times article talks about three Baltimore locals […]
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Things are finally starting to pick up around here and I am not talking about the war in Iraq, which is hundreds of miles away from here. I am talking about finding some other Jews to outreach to. I am here at an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia as part of a volunteer two month deployment. I have been […]
Read moreUPDATE: Yet another twist in the Air Force Academy discrimination issue has surfaced. A top Air Force Academy chaplain said Thursday she was fired for speaking up about anti-Semitism and other reports of religious intolerance among cadets and staff. Read the AP article HERE. I first wrote about this story back in December, but the issue has been in the […]
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JIG reader Alla Staroseletskaya, sent me these wonderful pictures of some Russian Jewish Veterans of WWII (who are now U.S. citizens) promoting the website during Victory Day celebrations! Alla has actually done a lot recently to support Jewish veterans. She created a small website to spotlight an article she wrote about U.S. and Russian Jewish veterans. The Russian version […]
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1st Lt. Kristin Burt of the Army News Service reports on a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at FOB Salerno in Afghanistan. For Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, literally the Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism, the FOB Equal Opportunity Advisor Sgt. 1st Class Jeffery Fagan organized a ceremony that encouraged Soldiers and civilians to do just that: remember. […]
Read moreOver the last three years, I have encountered numerous situations (at least a dozen) in which Soldiers have reported being denied their right to religious accommodation either through a lack of provision of information about Jewish services or a lack of support for transportion, etc. While this is a most serious problem, just as serious is the system under whose […]
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