Finally, a Star of David for Jewish Heroes
Every grave marker we could correct would be an act of justice and a teaching opportunity. And, of course, a chesed shel emet.
Yoni Goldstein: Soaring to the Beat of a Different Drum
Every kid wonders what it would be like to fly. Yonatan (Yoni) Goldstein didn’t leave it to his imagination; he took his dream to the sky. “I believe it’s my calling,” he says. “It’s something I just knew I had to do,” says the twenty-five-year-old US Air Force pilot. With every military mission, Lieutenant Goldstein […]
Dr. Ben Kempner, Sir! Frum Physician Goes Navy
Navy Lieutenant Ben Kempner, thirty-two, wrestles with being a yarmulke-wearing, kosher-eating anomaly at work and a uniformed attraction sporting a crew cut in his Jewish community. Fearlessly jumping from combat-training planes in the middle of Fort Benning, Georgia, Lieutenant Kempner will admit that he’s not your typical frum physician. A graduate of Maimonides School in […]
Is There a Rabbi on the Base? The Life of a Jewish Army Chaplain
In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, Chaplain (Colonel) Sanford Dresin, having just received semichah from Yeshivas Chasam Sofer in Brooklyn, New York, became an Army chaplain. After serving two years on a United States Army base in Fort Meade, Maryland, he knew that if he remained on active duty, the next stop […]