Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
Two 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 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 […]
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The National Museum of American Jewish Military History has a program that allows you to memorialize a fallen Jewish service member via the Yahrzeit Remembrance Program. They charge a fee of $100 to list your loved one on the site. Each yahrzeit includes a photo and a brief description of his or her service. The listing is shown on both […]
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KOACH, which is traditionally a college outreach program for Conservative Judaism, has a listserv devoted for Jews in the military. Although their website describes the list as being for the families of Jewish active duty military, my brief experience with it seems to show that it is equally useful for the actual servicemembers as well. Even though this is sponsored […]
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UPDATED Feb 2014 What’s better than a nice hot MRE? A kosher one, of course! As most of us know, keeping kosher in the military can be a particular challenge. Add field conditions into the equation and it gets even harder. So what’s a good Jewish boy (or girl) to do? Enter MoM to the rescue. No, not your mother, […]
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