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Stiebel to stay in touch with ‘Burgh, study Torah, via Internet From the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh By Susan Jacobs Associate Editor Pittsburgh resident Victor Stiebel recently reported for active duty with a reserve unit of the Marine Corps. Soon, he will ship out from Camp Lejeune, N.C., to serve in Iraq. But even though Stiebel, 49, is trading the hills of […]
Read moreTim Judah’s family left Baghdad in the late nineteenth century. When Saddam Hussein’s regime fell he was the first member of his family back in Baghdad for over a century. He decided to find what is left of the Iraqi Jewish community: ‘According to those that remain, their numbers add up to the grand total of thirty-four people.’ Baghdad was […]
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On Thursday, Private First Class Daniel Agami was killed by a roadside bomb. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In a standing-room-only crowd that snaked outside the chapel, Pfc. Daniel Agami was memorialized Tuesday by hundreds of friends – and even some strangers from the local chapter of Jewish War Veterans – as a happy-go-lucky man […]
Read moreSwampscott Officer Ready for Deployment to Baghdad Bette Keva Jewish Journal Staff Lately, when Michael Finer walks to KFC in Vinnin Square for lunch, just a few yards from his firm, he’s thinking about the marching he’ll be doing with a weighted down rucksack on his back while wearing heavy boots and dodging suicide bombers in the besieged city of […]
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When forty people show up at your Passover Seder (literally Order), it is anything but orderly. But it is a blessing – especially when you are fighting a war in Iraq where duty schedules are heavy and Jews are not only scarce but also scattered across what we in the military dub the ITO – or Iraqi Theater of Operations. […]
Read moreFrom Canadian Jewish News – Lt. Laurie Zimmet of Los Angeles, an observant Jew of Los Angeles, California, organized a seder over Passover and erected a menorah in one of Saddam’s former palaces. This story in the Canadian Jewish News is quite fascinating and worth the read. From the article: “She declined to be described as frum or observant. “I […]
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