Jewish Veterans Profiled on TJC
This week The Jewish Channel’s Meredith Ganzman profiled several Jewish veterans as part of a story highlighting Jewish service for Veterans Day.
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Veterans Visit Israel
For the past couple of years, an organization called Heroes to Heroes has sent groups of eight to fifteen American veterans will on a ten day journey to Israel where they are joined by up to five of Israeli peers from the IDF. The group travels, learns, and explores as a unit. The trip is designed to educate, motivate and […]
Read moreAEPi’s Year of The Veteran
This past weekend I had the distinct honor of being the keynote speaker for my fraternity’s annual convention. When I was first approached to do this, I asked myself what you are probably asking yourself now – “why on earth would they pick me to be a keynote speaker?” For those of you unfamiliar with the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, it […]
Read moreJewish Navy SEAL Wins Humanitarian Award
Eric Greitens, the founder of an organization challenging veterans to build lives of purpose, strengthening individuals and communities while changing the national conversation about returning service members, is the 2012 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize. The prize recognizes “young innovators whose Jewish values infuse their humanitarian accomplishments, providing inspiration for generations to come.” It’s hard not to be thoroughly impressed […]
Read moreJewish Memorial Day Service
For the past five years now, the Council of Young Jewish Presidents (CYJP) has hosted the largest Jewish community-wide Memorial Day Ceremony in the New York metropolitan area. Each year an esteemed Jewish veteran serves as the keynote speaker. Past speakers have included Col. Jack Jacobs and General Robert Magnus. This year’s guest speaker was Retired Major General Sidney Schachnow. Jacob […]
Read moreDachau Survivor Returns to Germany to Fight the Nazis
Legion Magazine has a fantastic article about Werner Kleeman, a 91-year-old Jewish WWII veteran, whose story is rather unique and amazing. Mr. Kleeman, a German citizen at the time, was rounded up and sent to the Dachau camp just after Kristalnacht. In what was surely a continuous series of amazingly fortunate events, Kleeman was able to secure his release from […]
Read moreMembership in the JWV
My name is Ian Berkowitz, and I am a retired Army E-7, and also a Jew. I have a 60% disability through the VA. Recently, due to a car accident, I became totally unable to return to work. I began getting actively involved in all of my veterans oragnizations. I am currently the Commander of our local Jewish War Veterans […]
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