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...
View ArticleAbe 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,...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleGuard 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...
View Article2015 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...
View ArticlePassover 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....
View ArticleIsadore 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...
View ArticleFemale 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...
View ArticlePresident 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...
View ArticleRabbi 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,...
View Article2016 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....
View ArticleJewish 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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