Are YOU a Jewish Veteran?

Editor’s note: Margery Gross is a member of JWV Post 39 in Atlantic County, NJ. In 1896, a group of Jewish Civil War veterans got together to form the Hebrew Union Veterans (HUV) group. This group was the direct result of slanderous accusations that Jews had not participated in the military during the War Between the States. What is difficult […]

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Military Cadets Visit Jewish Sites in Poland

JTA recently reported on 12 cadets from the Army, Navy, and Air Force Academies who travelled throughout Poland visiting Jewish sites. The trip was sponsored by the Auschwitz Jewish Center, a New-York based group that operates a museum and information center in Oswiecim, Poland. I had never heard of this program before, but it is evidently a regular event put […]

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Jewish Service in WWII

I recently stumbled across a very interesting website from the University of Michigan titled, When Jews Were GIs: World War II and the Remaking of American Jewry. It is actually an online adaptation of a lecture, delivered by Deborah Dash Moore (author of G.I. Jews), to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. The lecture doesn’t […]

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Digital Haggadah

For you last minute folks who don’t have access to a haggadah for your seder, jewishfreeware.org has a few resources available for download. These include haggadahs based on experience level, Passover songs, a Passover guide, and a seder supplement.

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TORAHS/TANAKHS FOR THE TROOPS

One of the most desired resources for many of our Jewish troops besides their own personal copy of “Prayer Book for Jewish Personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States” is a pocket size Torah or Tanakh, depending on one’s individual preference. A Torah (the Five Books of Moses) used to be available in the Department of Defense’s supply […]

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