Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
We all love waiting in line at our ID Card office, right? Well, some new online options make this trip a lot less painful or even unnecessary in some cases. The Military Times reports on a new online option for ID cards: Family members will have an easier time getting a military ID card now that the Defense Manpower Data […]
Read moreJews in Green fave Alison Buckholtz scribed a great article for Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life. When my husband Scott shipped out to Baghdad last month, he left a lot behind; he knew he’d be weighed down with duffel bags full of body armor, combat gear, and new Army uniforms, so he put aside most of what he […]
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Some of you may remember some of the excellent pieces written by Alison Buckholtz, the wife of a Navy pilot. She has now published a book titled STANDING BY: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War. From her book website: Alison Buckholtz never dreamed she would marry a military man, but when she met her […]
Read moreWriter Mindy Salazar speaks with Sarai Kashnow about the challenges of being a military spouse, the “toughest job in the military.” Sergeant Joseph Kashnow, and his wife, Sarai, both in their twenties, did not have a typical “shanah rishonah” (first year of marriage). Only three months after getting married in January 2003, Joe was deployed to Iraq in support of […]
Read moreMy 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 moreIn an excellently written and very amusing article in the World Jewish Digest, Alison Buckholtz encapsulates the difficulties Jewish service members can face in more remote duty stations, and by cataloging her family’s efforts to bring yiddishkeit to their military community. Sans crucifix… From the article: So as we drove down our new street in Anacortes, it wasn’t the extravagant, […]
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When I decided to marry my Marine, I thought I was giving up on my career goal of getting a Masters degree in Jewish Education. This is a fairly new degree, and it is only offered at a few schools-none of which are near a Marine base. It wasn’t until after the wedding, with some helpful advice from my friends […]
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