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Last month, the Cleveland Jewish News ran a story written by Korean War veteran and Holocaust survivor Michael Blain, that highlighted the relative commonplace of survivors who served in the U.S. military during the war. Commenting on a recent certificate of appreciation he received from the U.S. Department of Defense in recognition of honorable service during the Korean War, Blain […]
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by Chaplain (CPT) Shlomo Shulman South Korea has been in the news a lot lately. It’s hard to believe this ultra-modern, peaceful country with spotless sidewalks and almost no street crime is on the front lines of the last battle of the Cold War. I’ve been a US Army chaplain in Seoul for the past year-and-a-half. I’m assigned to the […]
Read morePassover on Wheels by David Geffen from the Jerusalem Post At the conclusion of an intense and successful military Korean Pessah mission for 700 Jewish soldiers, Chaplain Oscar Mike Lifshutz wrote an eight-page summary report to Rabbi Aryeh Lev, his supervisor at the Jewish Welfare Board’s Chaplaincy Commission, on May 4, 1951. “We have just returned from the front,”Lifshutz began, […]
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Came across this article, I think it’s great (especially when we supply the Jewish stuff!) Dee – Jewish Prime Vendor A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA By Rebecca Rosenthal (Original Article) North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea […]
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The White House announced September 14 that Cpl. Tibor Rubin in recognition of his courageous actions in Korea from 1950 to 1953 will be awarded the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor will be presented to Rubin by President Bush during a White House ceremony, September 23. At age 13, Rubin was forced from his native Hungarian Jewish community […]
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