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This article includes the oratory that was done to Honor my grand-daughter A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson at the ALS Graduation at Patrick Air Force Base. They had dedicated the graduation to Elizabeth and presented a flag to me. Two ALS graduates of the 45th Security Forces Squadron, SrA Christopher Ward who put this all together to honor Elizabeth and SSgt […]
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 moreServices set for Chicago soldier Bitton who died in Iraq By Robert Mitchum and Mary Owen | Tribune reporter February 25, 2008 Services for Cpl. Albert Bitton, a 20-year-old Chicago Army medic who died last week in Iraq, have been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago synagogue, his family said. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m […]
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Celebrating Chanukah 2007 in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace, who would think? Yet tonight inside a marble encrusted hall in Baghdad, we lit the eighth light of a hand-made, 6-foot tall menorah. We prayed in Hebrew, joyfully sang a medley of Chanukah songs, ate latkes, and best of all, we were Jews together in the land of our earliest forefathers. The […]
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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 […]
Read moreHat tip to USCJ’s The Brave listserv Holy days draw a crowd for U.S. rabbi’s services in Baghdad By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, September 22, 2007 Most days, the only rabbi in Iraq is the one deployed there by the U.S. Army. Capt. Andrew Shulman usually leads services Friday evenings on Camp Stryker in Baghdad for […]
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Click here to read the full article. Chapel Hill, N.C. – Sturdy pontoon bridges, guard towers and mess halls are standard work assignments for the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s construction battalions. But a physician assigned to a Seabee unit in western Iraq had to look elsewhere this year for help erecting a small hut that will last only eight days. […]
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