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Israel Anti-Apartheid “Week”

Posted by SGT Brian Kresge on February 10, 2010

Returning from a two-month hiatus with a firm commitment to maintain this blog, starting with this:

For the active duty military, this may or may not be relevant, since as Jews in the American military, our lives likely do not revolve around either Israel or life on university campus.

For some in the reserves currently enrolled in school, this may be more omnipresent.

March 1st through March 14th is Israel Anti-apartheid Week, and though the organizers are apparently too daft to recognize the difference between 7 days and a fortnight, their message will be crystal clear - “free thinkers” of the world will continue to fallaciously dog Israel and single it out for “crimes” that no sane or discerning individual would.

I do not fall into the “cult of Israel” paradigm. I do not think it necessarily admirable when a youth who spends his life immured in gilded Americana decides to go throw his lot in with the Israeli military, no matter how noble the concept. As long as the United States and Israel are allied, there are plenty of opportunities to serve here, in the land that has equally given us so much, with ostensibly more freedom of religious movement than we might enjoy in Israel (see marriages and conversions). A strong Jewish presence in allied Diaspora military, as we’ve documented with former Guard Bureau chief General Blum’s visit to Israel, does more for maintaining Jewish credibility in the US than kids enlisting overseas.

For my part, too, as much as I love Israel, my spiritual home is in a minyan, or teaching our faith to my children, or our home when we bask in the glow of Shabbos candles on our dining room table.

I also like big snow storms, especially with the recent two foot dump the Mid-Atlantic just enjoyed.

I only say this to lay the groundwork that one need not indulge a knee-jerk support of Israel in order to recognize just how damaging is this Western opinion shift towards Israel, for both Jews in Israel and Diaspora.

We, especially those of us in the military, cannot forget that how we fare in Diaspora is a bell-weather for what’s in store for the Jewish people.

I don’t know why it is buried in the news, but the sad fact is, one of the continually growing “hate crime” sectors in the U.S. are crimes committed against Jews. Many of these are taking place on college campuses, where antisemitism thinly disguised as “legitimate criticism of Israel” manifests in events such as this “anti-apartheid week.” See the ridiculous outbursts at Ambassador Oren, for instance, in California.

Take it apart: Mel Gibson, “Kick a Jew Week” on Facebook, which enjoyed significantly less press than a similar persecution of redheads, and even local students in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, describing that “Jew” is being bandied about as an insult amongst peers in their schools.

It’s not a “left” or “right” issue. See the dude that shot up the Holocaust museum for a scary manifestation of an antisemitic fringe right. Read the comment section on the Huffington Post attached to ANY article regarding Israel, and many about other countries in the Middle East, and you’ll see where the self-flagellating losers like former President Carter have taken us. “We have seen the enemy, and it is us” nonsense, rinse, repeat. People are quoting Israel as the cause du juor for demonizing Jews and bring forth the age old canards, which read like they’re still using the Protocols as a play book.

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RIP - LCpl. Jeremy M. Kane

Posted by STEVE18 on February 08, 2010

http://patriotguard.org/ALLForums/tabid/61/view/topic/forumid/29/postid/1321748/Default.aspx

Updated 28 JAN 10 1015CST by Ladynighthawk

The Patriot Guard will render honors to LCpl. Jeremy M. Kane, who died while supporting operations in Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, based out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Viewing: 9 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.
Congregation M’Kor Shalom
850 East Evesham Road
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003-4400

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Death of a Jewish USMC In Afghanistan

Posted by paulo on January 28, 2010

L. CPL Jeremy Kane, Of Cherry Hill, NJ Death on 23 January 2010.
In Afghanistan.
Funeral service will be 9 AM At Cong. M’KOR Shalom 850 Evsham RD Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

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CARE FOR OUR TROOPS

Posted by paulo on December 21, 2009

We of the Drizin-Weiss Post JWV #215 Philadelphia, Pa. Would like to start a program sending Care Packages to our troops.
If anyone can tell us who to contact and help in obtaining these troops,it would be appreciated.
EMail Put In subject line (CARE FOR TROOPS)
or Drizin-Weiss JWV Post 215
913 Tyson Av.
Phila, Pa 19111-4405
Phne # 215 728 9368
Thanks

Paul Ouslander

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Jewish Women of Hartford, CT during WWII

Posted by SGT Brian Kresge on October 27, 2009

“Pride, Honor & Courage” New film focuses on Hartford-area Jewish women during World War II

By Cindy Mindell (Jewish Ledger)
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:54 PM EDT

Sarah Brody was serving with the Army Nurse Corps in Germany during World War II, when she was shot at a few minutes after this photo was taken. Brody is one of several Hartford area Jewish women whose WWII stories are chronicled in a new documentary that will premiere in West Hartford this month.

Since she became executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford (JHSGH) five years ago, Estelle Kafer has made it a priority to organize oral history projects among the various segments of the local Jewish community.

“It’s important to try to tell the stories of individuals and community members and their experiences within the community, and to use our archives to make those stories come alive,” she says.

In 2008, while planning a women’s oral history project, Kafer consulted with Jayne Guberman, oral history director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, a national organization based in Brookline, Mass.

Guberman mentioned the JWA’s plans to conduct a nationwide survey of Jewish women who had served in the military. To start, JWA hoped to set up “roadshows” akin to the PBS series, “Antiques Roadshow” at historical societies and smaller museums throughout the country. Women would come to give their stories and show their artifacts to interviewees, which would then be added to the JWA collections and displayed in an online exhibit.