Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
As someone with young children, this sounds like an amazing opportunity for a top notch Jewish education. Having access to a Jewish education for one’s children is a fairly common concern I hear about from Jews who are contemplating joining the military. Hopefully programs like this will remove that stumbling block. Many Jewish military families have been struggling for years trying to figure […]
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From the Jewish Journal: It’s 5:45 and the alarm sounds. Another day at Bagram Airfield for me. Another day in Afghanistan and I somehow manage to sit up, put on my fatigues and walk over to the gym, 100 yards from my 10-by-10-foot living space. Around 0700, I grab a quick shower, and prepare for my morning update meeting. Now […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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I came across a book review of Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine in a most surprising place: a recent issue of The Jewish Georgian. The name Krulak is always familiar to me, as General Charles Krulak (the son of the subject of the book) was one of the few Commandants of the Marine Corps I have personally […]
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