Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
My novel MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is a fictionalized account of my first nine weeks as a new army officer’s wife in the spring of 1970. The novel has been nominated as a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. You can download the first few pages for free at the link below. And if you have […]
Read moreFor our Reform Jewish service members, the movement is due to release a new siddur (prayer book). Titled Mishkan T’Filah, it offers a number of significant differences with Gates of Prayer, with inclusion of both new prayers and prayers previously omitted. Reform Judaism has a significant challenge in that it has perhaps the most diverse range of literacy and practice […]
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Gen. Robert Magnus is assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. By Suzanne Kurtz Situated deep within the E-ring of the Pentagon, the spacious office suite of Marine Corps Gen. Robert Magnus is surprisingly quiet. Uniformed aides work purposefully outside, while Magnus reminisces about his childhood. He recalls his boyhood idol, a family friend who regaled him with stories of sinking […]
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I am a Sephardic Jew born in Baghdad, Iraq. I served in the U.S. Army, mostly in Korea, with the First Cavalry Division,15th Aviation Company. I retired in 2003 and authored 2 books: Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad And the Return and History of The Jews and Israel. My life’s story can be found on my website: www.saulsilasfathi.com or you […]
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Army Colonel (and fellow member of the tribe) Holly Doyne has written a book entitled Kuwait Diary. The book provides a rare look into the real lives of the women and men in combat service support, those who were performing the myriad of tasks to keep goods and services flowing north. Through the daily emails she sent to family, colleagues […]
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Aish.com has an interesting excerpt on their website from Shaindy Perl’s Loyal Soldier. The book is about Army Captain Hank (Zvi) Webb’s experience in Vietnam, and how he “began serving his true Commander-in-Chief”. From the Aish article: Generally, the men on base were given the day off on Sunday. They would go out to a nearby beach, grill hamburgers and […]
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By Dr. Alex Grobman, author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948. Many Holocaust commemorators honor American soldiers who participated in the liberation of a concentration or slave labor camp. They often overlook the American Jewish chaplains who played a critical role in helping the Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in the American Zones […]
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