February 2011 – Jews in Green

Jewish Chaplain Memorial Back on Track

19 Feb 2011 JR

In Arlington National Cemetery, there is a unique monument known as “Chaplains Hill” that memorializes the names of 242 chaplains who perished while on active duty. Strangely enough, none of the 13 Jewish chaplains who have died while serving are honored there. There has been a movement to change that for some time now. Everything was on track […]

Remembering The Fallen

14 Feb 2011 JR

The Forward recently published an excellent piece that profiles many of the Jewish servicemembers who have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have mentioned many of these same people on JIG in the past, but the Forward takes a much more in-depth look into each case and even gets some reactions from the family members of […]

Finding Kosher Kimchi in Korea

12 Feb 2011 JR

by Chaplain (CPT) Shlomo Shulman South Korea has been in the news a lot lately. It’s hard to believe this ultra-modern, peaceful country with spotless sidewalks and almost no street crime is on the front lines of the last battle of the Cold War. I’ve been a US Army chaplain in Seoul for the past year-and-a-half. I’m assigned to the […]