If you have visited one of our local Jewish cemeteries on Memorial Day you will have seen the efforts of a small group of local Jewish veterans who honor their comrades of past conflicts with a flag placed on each of their graves. In 1996, armed with a list ofContinue Reading
By David Shayne, Special to JTNews “Haviva Reick: A Kibbutz Pioneer’s Mission and Fall behind Nazi Lines” by Zeev and Tehila Ofer (FAWNS, $16). Toward the end of World War II, the British and the Haganah (the underground army of pre-Israel Jewish Palestine) collaborated to train and insert some threeContinue Reading
By Rafael Medoff, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army chaplain Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz ordered the driver of his military transport truck to pull over for a group of uniformed women who were hitchhiking. “WeContinue Reading
By Marilyn Corets, Special to the Jewish Sound Following the death of my mother, Roberta, on May 9, 2011, my father, Ellis Corets, started to dedicate his time to remembering American Jewish military members who never returned home from overseas combat. A Korean War veteran, now 82 years old, DadContinue Reading
