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Seattle-area Jewish soldier killed in Afghanistan July 6, 2009 (JTA)-A Jewish soldier from the Seattle area was killed in a Taliban attack on a U.S. army base in Afghanistan. Pvt. Aaron Fairbairn, 21, of Aberdeen, Wash., was killed last Saturday when an insurgent drove a truck full of explosives into the base in eastern Afghanistan and detonated it. Fairbairn’s stepfather, […]
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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 […]
Read moreJewish Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan January 7, 2009 SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – A South African-born Jewish soldier serving in the Australian army was killed in Afghanistan. Pvt. Gregory Sher, 30, was with a Special Operations Task Group when he was killed Sunday in a rocket attack by Taliban insurgents on a military compound in the Oruzgan Province, southwest of […]
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO – Jake Yelner thought he’d pulled a fast one on his mother. He enrolled at Diablo Valley College near his hometown of Lafayette, in the East Bay – but he never showed up for classes. His mom finally busted him, dragging him to campus to prove that he wasn’t a student. “He never went to school at all, […]
Read moreFrom the Wisconsin Jewish Chronical ‘Grateful that I am alive’: Iraq war veterans reflect By Andrea Waxman of Chronicle Staff Racine resident Tom Rodgers, a veteran of the Marine Corps and of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, would “absolutely” make the same decision and join the Marines again, if he had it to do over. “It is such a […]
Read moreFrom the November 13, 2007 edition – Military chaplains: An Orthodox rabbi mixes faith and patriotism in Afghanistan Army Capt. Shmuel Felzenberg juggles outreach to local Muslims, interfaith counseling, and the kosher quest By Lee Lawrence | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan When the bus doors open, 20 soldiers clamber out, laughing, reaching for their cameras […]
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Army chaplain talks of service to war’s Jewish troops by Norm Oshrin Special to NJ Jewish News 10.30.07 Clad in khaki camouflage fatigues, from the boots on his feet to the kipa atop his head, Colonel Ira Kronenberg told a Monroe Township audience about the challenges facing the approximately 800 Jewish military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a […]
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