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Operation Military Pride, a volunteer organization that assists in sending care packages to troops overseas, has a great guide for sending packags overseas. We have received a lot of requests from readers that want to send packages to deployed troops, so this should answer a lot of questions people have. You can check out their site at www.operationmilitarypride.org/packages.html. There you’ll […]
Read moreThe JTA reports that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the case of David Tenenbaum, an engineer at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command. Tenenbaum claimed he was subjected to 11 years of investigations and discrimination because he was Jewish and was feared to be spying for Israel. Tenenbaum tried suing the Army for discrimination, but lower courts as […]
Read moreThe Colorado Springs Gazette recently reported that the Air Force Academy is facing some allegations of religious bias. Some of the more serious incidents include: “Nonbelievers” were forced to march in the “heathen flight” during basic training. For at least 10 years, an advertisement proclaiming, “We believe that Jesus Christ is the only real hope for the World,” ran in […]
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Certainly not Maj. David Harleigh-Gyll Gurfein and his new bride Linda Fern Roth, senior producer for the CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. Against all odds, Maj. Gurfein found his nice Jewish girl while on a mission in Iraq. I am sure any service member can attest to the difficulties in finding Jewish friends-let alone “nice Jewish girls/guys”- while in the fleet. […]
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Set your VCR’s and Tivo’s for Wednesday at 10pm. The Hallmark Channel will be airing a documentary called The Four Chaplains : Sacrifice at Sea. The true story of four World War II U.S. Army chaplains who sacrificed their lives to save their comrades comes to life in “The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea,” a prime-time television special that airs […]
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Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets is looking to recruit minority students, and that includes bringing Jewish cadets into the fold. Recent statistics show that the Corps’ recruiting techniques are working to attract minority students, but they plan to do a lot more in the near future. The Corps Commandant, Gen. Van Alstyne, said that although the majority of the Corps […]
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While I try to avoid politics on this site, I have to give a quick plug for David Ashe for Congress. He is running in the 2nd Congressional District, which includes the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area. What brings my attention to Mr. Ashe is that he is a Jewish Marine who served in Iraq. There’s actually a lot more to it […]
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