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We all love waiting in line at our ID Card office, right? Well, some new online options make this trip a lot less painful or even unnecessary in some cases. The Military Times reports on a new online option for ID cards: Family members will have an easier time getting a military ID card now that the Defense Manpower Data […]
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More great photos from Chaplain Shlomo Shulman, stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany. This year he shook the lulav on the old Wehrmacht parade grounds. Chag sameach!
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The Jewish Daily Forward comes through again with 13 more profiles of Jewish servicemembers who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of these 13 were already listed on our Yarzheit List, but the Forward does its usual excellent job of telling the real story of each of these brave souls. It is well worth the read. Also, if you […]
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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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