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From 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 […]
Read moreDr. Alex Grobman provides this interesting article. From the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 until the early 1950’s, the surviving remnant of European Jewry received aid from various sources. The American Army, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Relief Organization (IRO) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provided the majority of the […]
Read moreDeerfield Beach residents recently gathered to honor Jewish service members who fought in WWII. The simple, but heartfelt ceremony was covered by the Sun-Sentinel: Abraham Rutman, 82, of Deerfield Beach, is among them. He served as a U.S. Army combat medic in World War II. He was itching for a fight and didn’t wait for a draft. “I’m Jewish,” he […]
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By Dr. Alex Grobman, author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948. Many Holocaust commemorators honor American soldiers who participated in the liberation of a concentration or slave labor camp. They often overlook the American Jewish chaplains who played a critical role in helping the Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in the American Zones […]
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In writing my recent review of Cast a Giant Shadow, I learned about a unique service held at West Point to honor Colonel Mickey Marcus. This past May, the 39th annual ceremony brought in nearly 200 people. Colonel Marcus, a 1924 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, is the only American officer buried at West Point that was killed fighting […]
Read moreI recently stumbled across a very interesting website from the University of Michigan titled, When Jews Were GIs: World War II and the Remaking of American Jewry. It is actually an online adaptation of a lecture, delivered by Deborah Dash Moore (author of G.I. Jews), to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. The lecture doesn’t […]
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