Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
Ed. Note: This post has been a long time overdue. Steve was a close friend of mine as are our families. He died while I was deployed and had hoped to run this story on the one year anniversary, but couldn’t make it happen. I thought it better to be a little late and remember him properly than to rush […]
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Legion Magazine has a fantastic article about Werner Kleeman, a 91-year-old Jewish WWII veteran, whose story is rather unique and amazing. Mr. Kleeman, a German citizen at the time, was rounded up and sent to the Dachau camp just after Kristalnacht. In what was surely a continuous series of amazingly fortunate events, Kleeman was able to secure his release from […]
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From the Jewish Journal: It’s 5:45 and the alarm sounds. Another day at Bagram Airfield for me. Another day in Afghanistan and I somehow manage to sit up, put on my fatigues and walk over to the gym, 100 yards from my 10-by-10-foot living space. Around 0700, I grab a quick shower, and prepare for my morning update meeting. Now […]
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In Arlington National Cemetery, there is a unique monument known as “Chaplains Hill” that memorializes the names of 242 chaplains who perished while on active duty. Strangely enough, none of the 13 Jewish chaplains who have died while serving are honored there. There has been a movement to change that for some time now. Everything was on track […]
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The Forward recently published an excellent piece that profiles many of the Jewish servicemembers who have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have mentioned many of these same people on JIG in the past, but the Forward takes a much more in-depth look into each case and even gets some reactions from the family members of […]
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by Chaplain (CPT) Shlomo Shulman South Korea has been in the news a lot lately. It’s hard to believe this ultra-modern, peaceful country with spotless sidewalks and almost no street crime is on the front lines of the last battle of the Cold War. I’ve been a US Army chaplain in Seoul for the past year-and-a-half. I’m assigned to the […]
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By Jeanette Friedman Oct 31, 2010 12:00 PM Eleven-year-old Shaina Agami, preparing to celebrate her bat mitzvah next year, could have chosen any number of fun things to do to infuse meaning into the special day. Instead, the South Florida girl is working to ensure that people will always remember her brother Danny, a vibrant 25-year-old cut down in the […]
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