Mezuzah

There is a new (perhaps) controversial book out by the IDF on the halachot of mezuzot. The book is available here. The book reminded me of the one on my CHU in Iraq. I am not sure why I took this picture, and I know it is way out of focus, but you should be able to see it there. (It is on the inside, for what I hope are obvious reasons.)

A Civil War Seder

The tale of a Passover seder during the civil war. Details here. 

WWII vet who liberated holocaust victims from Nazi train dies

Story here.

Stories of Jewish WWII Vets

Bill Harris and Albert Miller are documenting the stories of Jewish WWII vets in Chicago. 

Veterans and Survivors

The Sun Sentinel  has a story about some of the few people who are both American War Veterans and Holocaust survivors.  

Jewish Soldiers of WWI

Tablet magazine has a story.

A Succah in Afghanistan

Lieutenant Commander Rabbi Neal Kreisler's story here. 

Ohr Kohane's story

or rather, his mother's. . . here.

War and Peace: The Jewish Version

JID has an interesting discussion about the Jewish idea of war and peace. 

Jewish Soldiers in Germany

JTA has an interesting story about Jewish Soldiers in the German military today. 

Jewish Soldiers in South Korea

JTA reports about South Korea honoring Jewish Soldiers from the Korean War.

Jewish Soldiers in Argentina

Argentina is honoring their Jewish veterans from the Falklands War. Apparently there was significant anti-Semitism there even as recent as the Falklands War. 

In Ft Bragg

I am in Fort Bragg for about a month doing some school.  Routine stuff. I'll post if anything interesting comes up. 

Memorial Day

Jonathan Miller's touching plea for remembrance on Memorial day. 

Megilot for the military?

Someone (the Robert M. Beren Academy) is fundraising to get megilot to the US military.  It would have been nice to have a real megilah when I was deployed. Being in Iraq, next door to Iran, made the megilah that much more meaningful. I remember reading the megilah, for a few soldiers from a small booklet that came in a care package. But we did get many many boxes of mishloach manot from wonderful Jewish Americans. It was really nice of them. Thanks!