Year: 2012

Jewish Navy SEAL Wins Humanitarian Award

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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USMA Mom Talks About Her Son’s Decision to Serve

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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Off-Roading With Kosher Troops

On The Cross-Country TransAmerican Trail, “The Road Less Traveled” KosherTroops is an organization dedicated to supporting the American Jewish Troops with care packages throughout the year and on major Jewish Holidays. The KosherTroop Team will be driving an SUV on the 4,200 mile dirt road trail across America, to raise awareness of Jewish Troops serving in the United States Military. The […]

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Remembering America’s First Jewish Aviator

The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington recently wrote about a memorial service held for Arthur Welsh, an influential aviation pioneer and our country’s first Jewish aviator. Welsh, born Laibel Willcher in Russia, emigrated with his parents to America as a boy. He served in the Navy and eventually found his way to the inner circle of the Wright brothers where he […]

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Jewish Women in the Civil War

The Jewish Daily Forward recently profiled six Jewish women who played important roles in the Civil War. About 10,000 Jewish men fought in the Civil War, for both the Union and Confederate armies. When these soldiers set off for battle, they left behind their wives, sisters and daughters, who stayed to raise the children and run the households and, sometimes, […]

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First They Came For The Gays

It has been almost a year since the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT). Admittedly, I was one of the skeptics that thought that allowing gays to serve openly in the military would be a bad idea. While I have supported full rights to gays in the civilian world for some time now, I had bought into the idea […]

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Jewish Memorial Day Service

For the past five years now, the Council of Young Jewish Presidents (CYJP) has hosted the largest Jewish community-wide Memorial Day Ceremony in the New York metropolitan area. Each year an esteemed Jewish veteran serves as the keynote speaker. Past speakers have included Col. Jack Jacobs and General Robert Magnus. This year’s guest speaker was Retired Major General Sidney Schachnow. Jacob […]

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