Tag: U.S. Veterans
Jewish student vets denied freedom they fought to protect, congressman says
Eight decades after the G.I. Bill passed in 1944, veterans are “being denied the very religious freedoms on college campuses they fought to protect,” Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), chair for the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs,...
Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life
Jimmy Weldon, 97, is a voice actor and ventriloquist known for portraying Yakky Doodle and other Hanna-Barbera characters on “The Yogi Bear Show.” He was also once a soldier. Serving with the combat engineers...
Facing aging and COVID, Jewish veterans stay the course, as they did during wartime
When they were young, some stormed the beaches, taking the fight to the enemy; some liberated Nazi concentration camps in Western Europe and forever bear the scars of having witnessed man’s worst inhumanity to...
Nazi headstones, Confederate statues: America’s battle over memory
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) agreed last week to the removal of a small number of headstones in U.S. military cemeteries that were engraved with the Nazi swastika and the Iron Cross.
The stones marked...
Veterans of World War II, Jewish leaders mark VE Day in Jerusalem
Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov and Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) president Michael Mirilashvili laid a wreath on Sunday at the Memorial Candle Monument in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allies’...
Trump recognizes US Army veteran who saved Jewish prisoners in World War II
In his speech during the New York City Veterans Day Parade on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who saved the lives of 200 American Jewish prisoners of...
The Greatest Jewish Generation
The Greatest Generation, that milestone generation which saved the world in the Second World War, is rapidly dwindling right before our eyes. The death of George H.W. Bush at age 92, the youngest Navy...