Jews in the military

Graves of Jewish Soldiers from World War I Found in Gaza

A long-awaited kaddish.

Troy Fritzhand
Feb. 2 2024 12:01AM

Medieval Spain’s Great Jewish Poet, Philosopher, General, and Politician

Shmuel the Statesman and dark side of the Golden Age.

Tamar Marvin
Sept. 28 2023 12:01AM

A High Holiday Prayerbook Dedicated to an American Jewish Soldier in Dutch

David Meyer Wald, of blessed memory.

Daniel Lipson
Sept. 22 2023 12:01AM

What Being Jewish and Attending West Point Have in Common

Uncool and commanded.

Dara Horn
May 31 2023 12:01AM

Replacing the Crosses on the Gravestones of American Jews Who Died Fighting Fascism

Operation Benjamin.

Jamie Betesh Carter
May 30 2023 12:01AM

The Three Jewish Soldiers Serving the Roman Empire in Ancient Gaul

What their gravestones tell us.

Henry Abramson
March 27 2023 12:01AM

How Abraham Lincoln Was Convinced the U.S. Army Should Have Jewish Chaplains

The truth is stranger than the legend.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Feb. 10 2023 12:01AM

For More Than a Century, Cinema Has Portrayed Jewish Soldiers as Cowardly, or Worse

A new BBC series is no exception.

Benjamin Vos
Dec. 2 2022 12:01AM

The Jewish Sailors of Trafalgar

Menachem ben Shmuel, ten-year-old powder monkey and slop seller.

Georgia Gilholy
Nov. 1 2022 12:01AM

Kol Nidrei with the Prussian Army

The Jewish soldiers who laid siege to Metz in 1870.

Daniel Lipson
Oct. 3 2022 12:01AM

The Anglo-Jewish Grandee Who Led One of World War II’s Most Successful Intelligence Operations

Ewen Montagu and Operation Mincemeat.

Michael Medved
June 23 2022 12:01AM

The American Jew Who Created the Nuclear Submarine

Hyman Rickover.

Rich Tenorio
June 15 2022 12:01AM

How a Rabbi’s Eulogy at Iwo Jima Became Part of the Marines’ Lore

The purest democracy.

Jeff Jacoby
May 31 2022 12:01AM

How a Pacifist Rabbi Came to Join the Marines on Iwo Jima

“Religion is a part of life, not apart from life.”

Jonathan Bratten
Dec. 31 2021 12:01AM
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