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Remembering the Jewish Fallen at Normandy

Photo: Alan Weinschel Last week I wrote about the Normandy Kaddish Project, the brainchild of Alan Weinschel, that brought people around the world together in remembering the Jewish service members who...

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Abe Plotkin Recalls Liberating Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Abe Plotkin of Scranton, Pennsylvania served with the 284th Field Artillery, 3rd Army in France and Germany during WWII. In this new video from the National Museum of American Jewish Military History,...

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The American Jewish Soldier Who Brought Democracy to Japan

Colonel Charles Kades spent most of his overseas service during World War II in Europe. He landed in Southern France on D-Day, and participated in the multiple campaigns and the battle for Rhineland....

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Guard of Israel – Bencin Riseman and Family in WWI

Russian-immigrant Bencin Riseman joined the Massachusetts National Guard and served on the Mexican Border in 1916. When that conflict ended, Riseman returned home to Boston. The Great War was raging in...

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2015 Normandy Kaddish Project

For the second year, the Normandy Kaddish Project is requesting that people around the country and the world say kaddish at Shabbat services on June 5th for those that fell in the vicious fighting in...

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Passover Latkes in Goebbels’ Castle

Corporal Sidney Talmud, 1945. National Museum of American Jewish Military History. Corporal Sidney Talmud of Brooklyn was with the 38th Signal Construction Battalion marching through Germany in 1945....

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Isadore Zaritsky Recalls Liberating Ebensee Concentration Camp

Philadelphia-born Isadore Zaritsky served with the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during WWII. He landed in Normandy shortly after D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He describes the...

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Female Yeshiva Student to Attend West Point

Rachelle David – of the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, New York – will attend the United Stated Military Academy at West Point this fall. This news made the headlines recently...

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President to Award Medal of Honor to Jewish WWI Vet

On June 2, 2015, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry during World War I. Sergeant William...

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Rabbi Gittelsohn’s Iwo Jima Eulogy

The following is the text from a sermon given by Rabbi Steven Rein of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Alexandria, VA. For the second time in recent memory, the festival of Shavuot, and more specifically,...

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2016 Normandy Kaddish Project

Each year, the Normandy Kaddish Project asks synagogues across the nation to say kaddish for those who lost their lives in World War II at Normandy and are buried at the Normandy American Cemetery....

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Jewish chaplain Yisahar Izak

From the Fayette Observer: Soldiers tediously shoveled sand, filling bags for their pits as Capt. Yisahar Izak moved around the training area. His presence, quiet and unassuming, didn’t alter the gruff...

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PRESIDENT TO AWARD MEDAL OF HONOR TO JEWISH WWI VET President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry...

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