Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
The first week at United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, our instructor platoon commander pulled me aside and asked whether I needed kosher meals. “Good evening, Sir. This candidate does not want the Platoon Commander to go out of his way for this candidate, Sir, I stammered, standing at stiff attention, still tentative with my candidate-speak. “I don’t care […]
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(reprinted from http://www.cantorsperlman.com) CANTOR IVAN E. PERLMAN began his journey through life as a Cantor on March 14, 1948. He completed his Cantorial studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1950. Cantor Perlman has served congregations in Lyndhurst and Fairlawn, New Jersey; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Des Moines, Iowa; Providence, Rhode Island; Stockholm, Sweden; Sarasota; Boca Raton; and Tamarac, Florida. At age […]
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By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: April 29, 2007 Robert Rosenthal, a highly decorated pilot in World War II who helped usher in a new kind of warfare, the strategic bombing of Germany, in which huge bombers scraped the ice-cold stratosphere while serving as easy targets for enemy fighters and ground guns, died on April 20 in White Plains. He was 89. […]
Read moreDr. Alex Grobman provides this interesting article. From the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 until the early 1950’s, the surviving remnant of European Jewry received aid from various sources. The American Army, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Relief Organization (IRO) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provided the majority of the […]
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A few months back, I wrote about the use of Jesus in chaplain prayers. The LA Times ran an article recently about the same thing entitled, Invoking God’s Blessing – but Whose God?. “When you begin to pray in a way that shows a clear affinity to a faith group, that could knock out a lot of people who could […]
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Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt Foster L. Harrington, 31, of Ft. Worth, Texas, died Sept. 20, 2004 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Harrington was assigned to the Marine Corps Reserve’s 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division, Mobile, Alabama. Harrington was more worried about his fiancee and others in Alabama threatened by Hurricane Ivan than the […]
Read moreI’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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