Archive for category: JWV In the Community

A Drive to Collect Medical Supplies for Israel

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The Jewish War Veterans Post 652 participated in a drive to collect medical supplies and bandages to send to Israel. Combat medics in Israel are working tirelessly to treat the […]

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Original “Rosie the Riveter” Ethel Margolin throws Independence Day pitch

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By Earl Roth, Post 603 San Fernando Valley JWV Post 603 member and 101-year-old WWII WAC Ethel Margolin prepares to throw out the first pitch on July 4th at Dodger […]

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Cadet Training & Promotion Ceremony

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Members of North Shore Post 29 in Illinois attended the promotion of one of its members, Chaplain Dovid Grossman of the Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary, to the rank […]

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New York’s Nassau-Suffolk District Supports Holocaust Awareness

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By Eric Spinner It should be no surprise to anyone that education about the Holocaust and other genocides has been neglected in schools across our country, and the neglect has […]

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Loretta Z. Weiss, Patriot Extraordinaire

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By Eric Spinner, Post 652 Many women have served in our military over the years, and all have gone well beyond the normal expectations that society, in general, has set […]

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JWV Member Creates National Organization Honoring High School Enlistees

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In 2009, while serving on his local school board, JWV Post 126 member Dr. Kenneth Hartman noticed his school district in Cherry Hill, New Jersey did not honor graduating high […]

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O Canada

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By PNC Carl Singer Like many JWV posts, Essex-Preiskel-Miller-Glassberg Post 47 strives to honor our fallen comrades by putting out flags prior to Memorial Day and Veterans Day. We focus […]

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Trees for Troops

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Four Jewish veterans marked the first day of Chanukah in 2021 by performing a mitzvah, volunteering to help fellow veterans and service members of the New York National Guard to […]

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Department of Florida 75th Annual Convention

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By Larry Jasper, National Editor Due to a drop in the number of cases related to the pandemic, the Department of Florida decided to hold an in-person convention. We limited […]

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PFC. Steven A. Gershnow – Mission Accomplished

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By Eric Spinner Fifty-one years after being killed in action in Vietnam, members of JWV’s Nassau-Suffolk District found the neglected headstone of Steven Gershnow at New Montefiore Cemetery in Farmingdale, […]

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