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ShalomLearning Supports Jewish Military Families

04 Feb 2015 JR

Military families often experience the difficulty of finding quality Jewish education for their kids when stationed far from a metropolitan area. ShalomLearning, an innovative, engaging online program, provides consistency and quality to military families at close to no charge. Thanks to generous donors and grants, enrollment for U.S. military families in ShalomLearning’s all-online Hebrew school is only $36 per student in grades 3 […]

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The American Jewish Soldier Who Brought Democracy to Japan

28 Jan 2015 Mike Rugel

Colonel Charles Kades spent most of his overseas service during World War II in Europe. He landed in Southern France on D-Day, and participated in the multiple campaigns and the battle for Rhineland. But it was in Japan that Kades would leave his legacy. A native of Newburgh, N.Y., he arrived in Japan one week before the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S Missouri. […]

Abe Plotkin Recalls Liberating Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

21 Jan 2015 Mike Rugel

Abe Plotkin of Scranton, Pennsylvania served with the 284th Field Artillery, 3rd Army in France and Germany during WWII. In this new video from the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, he describes what it was like, as an American Jew, to discover the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the horrors of the Holocaust in April 1945.

Vietnam – A Jewish Chaplain’s Impact

20 Jan 2015 JR

A regular JIG reader sent in a link to this touching article from Tablet Magazine. It’s about Chaplain Meir Engel’s inspirational interaction with Pvt Richard Eisenberg, an MP in 1964, Soc Trang, Vietnam, which changed Pvt Eisenberg’s life. LtCol Engel was the first Jewish Chaplain in Vietnam, who later died in Vietnam and is memorialized on the Jewish Chaplain’s Monument, at […]

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