Jews in Green Featured on Jerusalem Post
We have arrived, as it were, in the Jewish blogosphere. JPost.com features Jews in Green in its technology section.
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Chaplain Speaks to Veterans
Army chaplain talks of service to war’s Jewish troops by Norm Oshrin Special to NJ Jewish News 10.30.07 Clad in khaki camouflage fatigues, from the boots on his feet to the kipa atop his head, Colonel Ira Kronenberg told a Monroe Township audience about the challenges facing the approximately 800 Jewish military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a […]
Read moreJewish captain guides USS Truman aircraft carrier
By Jonathan Tobin, the Jewish Exponent One thing is constant about life on an aircraft carrier: the noise. The roar of jet aircraft engines on the deck is complemented by other sounds heard throughout the ship and below deck: the explosive booms coming from the catapults launching planes and the reverberations of the restraining wires on the steel deck that […]
Read moreSalami and Shiites
Chaplain Shlomo Shulman, who frequently sends pictures for our photo gallery, has a great first-person account of his time in Iraq on Aish’s website. Click here for the article.
Read moreArticle in Jewish Post
Benjamin Nadler has penned an in interesting article, titled “The Few, The Proud, The Jewish” in the Jewish Post. You may read the article here. Interestingly, a bigot author recently used the same statistic of 1500 self-identified Jewish service members to claim we don’t do our share. I still argue that there’s no way to garner an honest statistic for […]
Read moreTwo Pittsburgh Area Jews in Iraq, with Blogs!
Hat tip to LTC (Rabbi) Eli Seidman, our chaplain in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and the Pittsburgh eruv web site. Rabbi Nosson Sach’s blog Victor Stiebel’s blog
Read moreHigh Holidays in Camp Stryker
Hat tip to USCJ’s The Brave listserv Holy days draw a crowd for U.S. rabbi’s services in Baghdad By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, September 22, 2007 Most days, the only rabbi in Iraq is the one deployed there by the U.S. Army. Capt. Andrew Shulman usually leads services Friday evenings on Camp Stryker in Baghdad for […]
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