Forward on the JWV

Editor’s note: Yeah, they quoted me, but I reached out to Representative Pitts by telephone and fax, rather than a visit to his office. Also, it bears repeating, the JWV offers a free membership to those in-service. JOIN!!! Jewish Veterans’ Group Struggles To Retain Relevance By Nathan Guttman Thu. Mar 13, 2008 Washington – On March 7, members of the […]

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Military Needs More Reform Rabbis

From the Forward: Our Troops Need Reform Rabbis Opinion By Benjamin Abramowitz Thu. Mar 13, 2008 In 1916, at the age of 15 and just a decade after landing at Ellis Island, my father enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served with distinction for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. After graduating college, I, too, joined the service, taking […]

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Aleph’s Military Shabbaton a Success

Weekend for Army Personnel an Inspiration for Wider Community Chabad.org Staff Feb 18, 2008 Some 50 Jewish soldiers and chaplains from all branches of the U.S. military, and their family members, turned out for the Feb. 8-9 military Shabbaton hosted by the Aleph Institute at The Shul of Bal Harbour in suburban Miami. The Aleph Institute, a Chabad-Lubavitch program that […]

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Another Bearded Success Story for Aleph Institute

Georgia’s First Jewish Military Chaplain Will Get to Keep His Beard Chabad.org Staff Feb 28, 2008 In another day and age, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Lipskier’s full length beard might have prevented his being a military chaplain. But in a sign of the times, when Lipskier is formally commissioned as a chaplain in the Georgia State Defense Force and its Army […]

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Army Major/Art Curator Saves Judaic Treasures

Curator ferried damaged relics from Baghdad Peggy Lim, Staff Writer RALEIGH – During her 10-month deployment to Baghdad in 2003, Army Reserve Maj. Cori Wegener helped repair the recently looted Iraq National Museum, clean artifacts fetched from cesspools and rescue Jewish-Iraqi archives soaked from flooded basements. It was the challenge of preventing wet books from growing mold in 120- degree […]

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Purim ToTally TreaTs for Troops

Over a ton of care packages bring the Jewish holiday spirit to over 400 troops Press Release “Thanks for being my hero.” Nine year old Rachel of the Monmouth Torah Links Hebrew School in Morganville, NJ wrote these words in a letter she sent out. Was it to some Hollywood star, basketball player or rising political star? Nope, it was […]

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Israeli Training Facility Model for National Guard

By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau BALADIA CITY, Israel – National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen could one day exercise at a state-of-the-art urban warfare training center here. From a distance, the National Urban Training Center (NUTC) looks like a bustling desert town. But it’s a purpose-built mock-up on a real-life scale designed as a training ground for military […]

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