Miranda Bloch, The Flying Marine

“What is a nice Jewish girl going to do in the military, especially in the Marine Corps?” –Miranda Bloch’s incredulous father Oy, don’t get me started about that question. The Jewish Women’s Archive has an excellent profile of Miranda Bloch, who enlisted in the Marine Corps during WWII and served as an aviation technician for training flights that prepared pilots […]

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Jewish Women in the Civil War

The Jewish Daily Forward recently profiled six Jewish women who played important roles in the Civil War. About 10,000 Jewish men fought in the Civil War, for both the Union and Confederate armies. When these soldiers set off for battle, they left behind their wives, sisters and daughters, who stayed to raise the children and run the households and, sometimes, […]

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Jewish Women Recruited

614, the magazine of Hadassah at the Brandeis Institute, as devoted their current issue to Jewish women in the military. There are a number of interesting articles available online – definitely worth a look. The idea was inspired by the exhibit, “Women in the Military: A Jewish Perspective,” at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History – also well worth a […]

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