Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
I’m not quite sure how I missed this, but back in February, American Jewish Life Magazine published what I consider to be the most in-depth article to-date on Jewish life in the military. An Army of Some, by Bradford R. Pilche, highlights the experience of a Jewish Marine who served in Kuwait and Iraq and includes other stories of Jewish […]
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In the previous article, Sgt Heesch asked, “Where have all the rabbis gone?” I may not know where they all are, but I have tracked down one of them. With all my experience with this site and in the Marine Corps, I had never really met a Jewish Chaplain… until this past month! I hadn’t been at Cherry Point for […]
Read moreMy wife might be the one who reads all the “entertainment news” in our family, but I did come across this tidbit the other day: Aaron Spelling, of Love Boat, Dynasty, Fantasy Island, and Melrose Place fame, passed away last week at the age of 83. While many of you might have known he was Jewish (We do control Hollywood, […]
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The deputy director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, Rabbi Nathan Landman, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the annual convention of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis, in San Diego this week. Landman’s active-duty career began in 1956 in the US Air Force. After retiring in 1981, he […]
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Army Colonel (and fellow member of the tribe) Holly Doyne has written a book entitled Kuwait Diary. The book provides a rare look into the real lives of the women and men in combat service support, those who were performing the myriad of tasks to keep goods and services flowing north. Through the daily emails she sent to family, colleagues […]
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From the Rabbinic Council of America website Wandering through the corridors of the convention, he had the air of a 35 year old American rabbi who works out to stay in shape. Except for the ramrod posture. And the curious accent–two parts English, one part Israeli. Oh–and the uniform. Avraham Horovitz is a 45 year old grandfather, who has spent […]
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Story and photos by Tech. Sgt. Martie Moore Public Affairs – Station Break The Army Chaplain dressed in fatigues with a matching yarmulkes and sporting a full beard said he is “paying back” America by serving in the military. Chaplain (Col.) Jacob Goldstein, Drilling Individual Mobilization Augmentee (DIMA) U.S. Army Reserve, Office of Chief of Chaplains First U.S. Army was […]
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