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Sir, When I interviewed you a few years ago for this blog, your crusade–if you’ll pardon the term–seemed focused on the pervasive doctrine of Christian millenialist triumphalism and its undue influence on the American military juggernaut, particularly after your son’s experience at the Air Force Academy. The video filmed at the Pentagon which seemed to defy the Establishment Clause and […]
Read morePennsylvania is currently mobilizing its largest contingent of National Guard since World War II. My unit, the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is currently at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, getting it in gear for deployment to Iraq. A few weeks prior to mobilization, I worked feverishly to have a lay program put together. The Aleph Institute was particularly helpful with materials, […]
Read moreEditor’s note: I mobilized with Aleph Institute’s nice Chumash and Tehillim, which have military covers and are of convenient size for deployment, and I imagine were printed some time between 1941 and today. Jews in the uniform should know of all their available resources. As young Jewish troops went off to serve in World War I, they received Tanachs from […]
Read moreClick here for the article body, or here for the audio. You can also read NPR’s interview with General Schwartz here. I’m not sure about the comparison to Mr. Spock – what is NPR trying to say, that all Semites look alike? – but General Schwartz’s biography is extremely exciting, and we are accordingly very proud of his achievement, and […]
Read moreFrom Aish.com, Chaplain Shulman writes about his experiences and his homecoming. This was moving: Once at the morgue, I asked one of the young soldiers who worked there if I could sit for awhile with the body, in accordance with ancient Jewish tradition. A young private walked me down the hall to a small room, where four large gurneys seemed […]
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By ANNIE TASKER Bucks County Courier Times For Rabbi Jon Cutler, working life is markedly different these days than it was at Warrington synagogue Congregation Tiferes B’nai Israel. Cutler, 52, now commutes by helicopter, hefting a few more pounds of equipment than his back can comfortably handle. His new synagogue was established, in part, with the help of civilian contractors. […]
Read moreFrom the Post-Gazette. Jewish war veterans to meet, visit and give back to the city Monday, August 11, 2008 By Abra Metz-Dworkin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Clarence “Code” Gomberg, a World War II veteran and Pittsburgh native, is Allegheny commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, a group he has been involved with since he returned from […]
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