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Army 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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Specialist, U.S. Army SPC Kashnow, raised in Baltimore, is a fourth generation American whose grandfather fought in World War II and whose father volunteered for the Vietnam War. His dream, ever since he was a young child was to join the military. In February of 2002 Joe Kashnow went to Army Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, […]
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