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The Jewish Welfare Board is creating a timeline on Facebook to show the history of Jews in the military, and to honor our contribution and service to our country. I think this is a very cool project, and one that is probably well overdue. While I don’t think that Facebook is necessarily the best place for this to be done, if […]
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Earlier this month, I received this great report from Chaplain Shlomo Shulman, who is currently stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany. Yesterday in the PX, I ran into a couple of senior Israeli officers attending a planning conference at Grafenwöhr. There are 27 of them altogether, but 5 of them keep kosher, so they’d been eating army rations in their hotel room […]
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This past weekend I had the distinct honor of being the keynote speaker for my fraternity’s annual convention. When I was first approached to do this, I asked myself what you are probably asking yourself now – “why on earth would they pick me to be a keynote speaker?” For those of you unfamiliar with the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, it […]
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General Norton Schwartz, the first Jewish Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, recently had his final military flight last month in advance of his retirement ceremony scheduled for this week. During a visit to Hurlburt Field to meet with Airmen and Air Force Special Operations Command leadership, Schwartz joined an MC-130E crew on a local training sortie. […]
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Eric Greitens, the founder of an organization challenging veterans to build lives of purpose, strengthening individuals and communities while changing the national conversation about returning service members, is the 2012 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize. The prize recognizes “young innovators whose Jewish values infuse their humanitarian accomplishments, providing inspiration for generations to come.” It’s hard not to be thoroughly impressed […]
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Editors Note: We often hear from parents who are hesitant about their children joining the military. Here is a great tale about a mom who learned a little about herself when her son was accepted to the U.S. Military Academy. It was originally published in on J. Weekly and republished here with the authors permission. “You don’t mind me applying […]
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