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American Jewish Woman Dies in Line of Duty in Afghanistan by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The first female U.S. Air Force Academy graduate to die in the U.S. counter-terror campiagns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Jew, fell in the line of duty last week in an insurgency attack in Afghanistan. Air Force 1st Lieutenant Roslyn Schulte was traveling from Kabul […]
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A mix of news about the service academies: Auschwitz Tour – Twelve cadets & midshipmen took a 2-week tour of Holocaust sites in Poland that included a trip to the Auschwitz death camp. The program is geared towards military officers and relates the tour to military ethics. This past summer, the Naval Academy had its very first Jewish baccalaureate ceremony […]
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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 […]
Read moreI don’t want JIG to turn into the Air Force Academy News Network, but I know this is a hot topic to a lot of our readers. I’ll try to maintain balance by combining the vast number of articles I have into a few jam-packed posts. So here’s what’s new in a nutshell: The school superintendent admits there is a […]
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I recently mentioned a story by The Forward about Jewish life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Since I’m a big fan of good news, I thought I would also bring your attention to a Cleveland Jewish News story on the Jews at West Point. In particular, the author discusses the active role of Hillel on campus. No […]
Read moreAhh, more news about Jewish life at the Service Academies. This time I actually have some good news to report, although it’s not at the Air Force Academy. First let’s get the AFA stuff out of the way: An Air Force task force due to report on religious bias claims at the Air Force Academy had not interviewed key critics […]
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