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The Marine Corps Uniform Board has implemented some changes to MCO 1020.34 regarding both the wearing of religious apparel and grooming standards related to religious observance. In the first case, they are now requiring CMC approval for religious apparel. The old wording did not have this requirement. Changes are in red. C. WITH CMC APPROVAL, NEAT AND CONSERVATIVE VISIBLE ARTICLES […]
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As a parent of young children, I am well aware of the challenges of finding quality Jewish education options for them as we bounce from duty station to duty station. While it’s not impossible to provide them with a consistent education, it can certainly be quite difficult – especially in more remote or “less Jewish” posts. Distance learning is nothing […]
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The 174th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East, held a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony last week at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.. Joshua Brisk, a Holocaust survivor was the guest speaker for the event. Brisk is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors of the Bistritz Ghetto and Auschwitz. After 11 months in Auschwitz he was transferred to Dachau and subsequently liberated by American Soldiers. Among the […]
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The JWB is seeking your input on improvements on the existing Passover Seder Participant Kit. While it is hard for beggars to be choosey, all of us who have “experienced” the seder kit knows it can leave a little to be desired. Rabbi Elson (I MEF Chaplain) is spearheading a revision of the kit to better serve those deployed during […]
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The Veterans History Project (VHP) of the Library of Congress is an oral history program that collects and preserves the first-hand interviews of America’s wartime veterans. Among their many collections, is one devoted specifically to Jewish veterans of WWII. It’s an interesting window into the daily lives and experiences of these young men when they went off to war. In addition to […]
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The Jerusalem Post had an interesting article over Passover about Jews in the Confederate and Union armies celebrating the holiday during the war: It was April 24, 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, and in between his duties as an infantryman, young Isaac J. Levy sat down in camp on one of the intermediate days of Passover […]
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All photos courtesy of DVIDS.
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