Jews in the military

From German Jewish Refugee to Decorated Colonel in the U.S. Army

A veteran tells his story.

Frank Cohn

Nov. 11 2024 12:01AM

A Jewish Baseball Player Turned Undercover Operative

Moe Berg: catcher and spy.

Stuart Halpern

Nov. 11 2024 12:01AM

Haredim and the IDF: Learning a Lesson from the Tsars

Incentives, not just demands.

Brian Horowitz and Moshe Shafer

June 20 2024 12:01AM

An American Jewish Soldier Who Was Buried among Germans Has Been Finally Given a Proper Resting Place

Nathan Baskind.

June 5 2024 12:01AM

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

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