Shabbat in Southwest Asia

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 […]

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Update on the Air Force Academy Discrimination Issue

UPDATE: 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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From Russia With Love

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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Yom Ha’Shoah in Afghanistan

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. […]

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Seders Around The Globe

Passover is probably a distant memory to most of us by now. The amazing joy of eating bread has probably subsided, and life is all back to normal. I had hoped to recap Passover in the military a little better, but my full time job (i.e. being a Marine) has been occupying 110% of my time lately. There have been […]

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