Jews in the military

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

The Adventures of a Jewish Bomber Pilot in World War II

Si Spiegel didn’t want to be a mechanic. He wanted to fight Nazis.

Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Dec. 21 2021 12:01AM

Remembering the Jewish Heroes of Pearl Harbor

“Wherever tyranny threatens, wherever the rights of man are in danger of being destroyed, there you will find the Jew.”

Tabby Refael
Dec. 13 2021 12:01AM

The Jewish Refugee Commandos Who Fought Hitler under the Union Jack

The modern-day Maccabees of X Troop.

A.E. Smith
Nov. 11 2021 12:01AM

The Jewish Naval Hero Who Donated New York’s Banished Thomas Jefferson Statue

Uriah P. Levy, lover of religious liberty.

Jonathan Sarna
Oct. 26 2021 12:01AM

A Jewish Marine’s Story of Observance During World War II

Semper fidelis—to God and country.

Mordechai Lightstone
June 2 2021 12:01AM

World War II’s Secret Unit of Jewish Warriors

The X Troop.

Leah Garrett
May 28 2021 12:01AM
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