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On Thursday, Private First Class Daniel Agami was killed by a roadside bomb. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In a standing-room-only crowd that snaked outside the chapel, Pfc. Daniel Agami was memorialized Tuesday by hundreds of friends – and even some strangers from the local chapter of Jewish War Veterans – as a happy-go-lucky man […]
Read moreA great site was forwarded to me last night. The military often puts us at bases or posts far away from larger Jewish communities. Subsequently, there can be a paucity of any kind of materials relevant to Judaism. For broadband Internet users, however, there is now the Jewish Tv Network, which has programming pertaining to both Jewish life and Israel. […]
Read moreIn an excellently written and very amusing article in the World Jewish Digest, Alison Buckholtz encapsulates the difficulties Jewish service members can face in more remote duty stations, and by cataloging her family’s efforts to bring yiddishkeit to their military community. Sans crucifix… From the article: So as we drove down our new street in Anacortes, it wasn’t the extravagant, […]
Read moreDr. Alex Grobman provides this interesting article. From the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 until the early 1950’s, the surviving remnant of European Jewry received aid from various sources. The American Army, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Relief Organization (IRO) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provided the majority of the […]
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From the Jerusalem Post – A Torah rescued from Lithuania has a home on the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman. The carrier is one of the few Navy vessels to have its own Torah. Few ships are large enough to need one, said Sam Werbel, an organizer of a dedication ceremony Sunday attended by 500 community members and dignitaries. The […]
Read moreJewsOnFirst.Org has effectively gathered the information on the Fort Leavenworth situation into one listing, here, including PDFs of the now-removed documents. Not an endorsement of JewsOnFirst.org, necessarily, as there are many issues on the site that many of us might agree/disagree with, but as far as information collection for the sake of making individual determinations, the linked page does an […]
Read moreDid you ever feel like the Jewish version of the father from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” gleefully relating how we invented the kimono? Here’s a bit of Flag Day trivia… Did you know that Flag Day is, in part, attributed to German-born Jew Benjamin Altheimer? When a St. Louis minister complained about a foreign-born Jew coming up with a […]
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