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From the New Jersey Jewish News website: by Debra Rubin NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex April 28, 2009 World War II veterans recalled recent and ancient history during a Passover seder held at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park. They gathered around the table, some in wheelchairs, to take part in the traditional meal sponsored by the New Brunswick/Highland […]
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 moreFrom the Lower Hudson Journal News WEST NYACK – As a combat infantry soldier in Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, Alan Moskin wasn’t even aware that Passover had come and gone. There was no matzo, no gefilte fish, no bitter herbs, no Haggadah. Fighting in towns across Europe in the spring of 1945, Moskin, then 18, was just happy to […]
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Jewish veterans honored for their service By HEATHER KEELS heather.keels@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN – Twenty-two miniature American flags dotted the grass in the B’nai Abraham cemetery off Virginia Avenue Sunday as Rabbi Fred Raskind led his congregation in a prayer for the veterans buried beneath. It was the first year the synagogue has held a Veterans Day ceremony, but for Jeanne Jacobs, […]
Read moreNavy vet: Chaplains tried converting me By William Petroski – The Des Moines Register Posted : Monday May 14, 2007 12:35:14 EDT Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones. Miller, […]
Read moreFrom Courier-Life Publications – The Big Apple’s top cop joined the executive of a utility giant on the awards podium when the Jewish War Veterans-Kings County Council met in Mill Basin. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and KeySpan Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Robert B. Catell were delivered plaques of commendation during the group’s annual meeting at El Caribe Country […]
Read moreFrom JTA – The remains of a Jewish soldier exhumed from a common grave in Estonia were reburied in Jerusalem. The body of Lenina Varshavskaya, a Jewish nurse in the Red Army interred alongside a monument to the soldiers who liberated the city from the Nazis, was reburied Wednesday according to Jewish custom at the Mount of Olives by one […]
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