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Editor’s note: It’s important for Jewish soldiers to consider lay leadership, especially if they are indeed strong as leaders and are capable of coordinating services (or even leading them). If you have a rabbinical chaplain, your capabilities may be of great use for that chaplain as he leverages his duties to his unit against his duties to Jewish personnel. If […]
Read moreG.I. Stein: Local Woman Heads for West Point July 10, 2008 – Aaron Passman It takes a lot of chutzpah to apply to just two colleges – especially when your safety school is Stanford. But that’s exactly what Anna Stein did, withdrawing her application there in December after receiving her appointment to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. […]
Read moreBelow is the URL to the guest post on my blog from a Jewish soldier now in Iraq. I asked him to write about being Jewish in the military and he did a terrific job! http://mrslieutenant.blogspot.com/2008/07/guest-post-from-iraq-people-like-him.html
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO – Jake Yelner thought he’d pulled a fast one on his mother. He enrolled at Diablo Valley College near his hometown of Lafayette, in the East Bay – but he never showed up for classes. His mom finally busted him, dragging him to campus to prove that he wasn’t a student. “He never went to school at all, […]
Read moreWriter Mindy Salazar speaks with Sarai Kashnow about the challenges of being a military spouse, the “toughest job in the military.” Sergeant Joseph Kashnow, and his wife, Sarai, both in their twenties, did not have a typical “shanah rishonah” (first year of marriage). Only three months after getting married in January 2003, Joe was deployed to Iraq in support of […]
Read moreIn 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, Chaplain (Colonel) Sanford Dresin, having just received semichah from Yeshivas Chasam Sofer in Brooklyn, New York, became an Army chaplain. After serving two years on a United States Army base in Fort Meade, Maryland, he knew that if he remained on active duty, the next stop would be Vietnam. He chose […]
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By Morris B. Margolies, Special to The Chronicle (of Kansas City) In the summer of 1952, peace talks between the Americans and the North Koreans were in progress at Panmunjom. I was stationed near Taegu, not too far away, as a chaplain for the Tenth Army Corps. From my headquarters I set forth every morning in a jeep on the […]
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