By Scott P. Stevens, Department Commander of TALO The Maurice Kubby Post 749 of El Paso, Tx had a busy week of Veterans events. On Thursday, the 8th, Lt. (Ret) Stanley Marcus and I went to the Fort Bliss Veterans Remembrance Ceremony. Mr. Marcus is a WWII Veteran, Liberator of three concentration camps and Honor […]
By George Heart, Post 112 JWV Atlanta Post 112 hosted a special guest speaker during our monthly post meeting November 18th. First, LTC (WA) George H. Heart, Ret., Post 112 CDR, presented introductory remarks about Jewish soldiers serving in the German Armed Forces. The main speaker was Oberstleutnant (LTC) Alexander Siegfried Sauer, Bundeswehr (German […]
By Barry Lischinsky, Membership Chairman On Sunday, November 11, 2018, Jewish War Veterans (JWV) Massachusetts (MA) North Shore Post 220 Members participated in the City of Peabody, MA Veterans Day event. Approximately three hundred (300) Veterans, families and guests attended this year’s City of Peabody Mayor’s Breakfast event thanking all community Veterans for their service. […]
By Sam Yudin, Post 786 Commander On November 16th, Shir Ha-Ma’alot in Irvine, CA showed their appreciation for their community’s veterans at their Friday night Shabbat services. They held a special service called, “Shabbat Service: Honor Those Who Protect Us.” It was a small event that had a major impact for those service members and […]
By Adam Goldberg, Post 158 Commander Jewish War Veterans (JWV) Post 158 of Southeastern Virginia had the honor of co-sponsoring the Hampton Roads Veterans Day parade and ceremony with the Hampton Roads Council of Veterans Organizations (HRCVO) in Virginia Beach, Nov. 12. This year’s festivities being significant due to the 100th year anniversary of the […]
By Sam Yudin, Post 786 Commander Tibor Rubin Post #786 has ensured Jewish American Medal of Honor Recipient display cases see the light of day for the first time in over 10 years in an exhibition at the Merage JCC in Orange County, CA. The 40th Infantry Division of the California National Guard has been […]
Alan Paley is an active member of the synagogue and veteran. Below are his remarks to the audience. Good Shabbos, Tomorrow, the nation will pause for a few minutes to both honor, and pay tribute to, the many men and women who served in the military, and then returned home. Most cities and towns hold […]
By Sabrina Fine, Communications Intern Dr. Guy Stern is a man of many titles. Literary scholar, Bronze Star Medal recipient and published author- to name just a few. Stern was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1922. He escaped from Nazi Germany and relocated to the United States in 1937 with the help of an uncle […]
By: Sabrina Fine, Communications Intern Jewish Warrior Weekend, an event which brings together Jewish cadets and midshipmen for a weekend of learning, comradery and celebration of Judaism, took place in Washington, DC, November 8-11. The event brought together forty-nine officers in training, who had the opportunity to learn about the history of Jewish military service […]
My first Chanukah in uniform was a dark one. Only the day before our scheduled Chanukah party at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, we’d gotten the devastating news that our unborn baby had 3 of the 12 congenital heart defects considered critical. Expectation for survival? Negative. Yet the fact that this painful news was thrown at us […]
