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Soldier’s story highlights plight facing gay would-be converts in Israel

Jewish Journal January 25, 2011

The young would-be convert to Judaism with a gold Star of David pendant peeking through a buttoned shirt is still baffled by the summer afternoon he says he was called in and dismissed from an Israeli army conversion course for being gay. The 23-year old Y.B., as he asked to be identified, had not disclosed his sexual orientation to anyone in the course, but one of the rabbi instructors \”outed him\” to course administrators after presuming he was gay. \”I was in shock. I felt the color draining from my face,\” Y.B. told JTA. \”I left eyes full of tears and angry, asking myself, why are they doing this to me? I have a partner of six years who comes from a religiously observant home and we are there every Friday night for Shabbat. The family is accepting and loving. If they come from such a traditional place and accept us with love, why can\’t others?\”

Meet the IDF: Ido Niv, 21, Maglan Elite Combat Unit

Jewish Journal December 10, 2008

\” . . . I had the option of taking a light service next to home, getting coffee for the commanders, but I wanted to serve my country. It was a strong feeling for me . . . \”

Friends of the IDF (FIDF) gala to honor 30 soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces

Tom Tugend December 10, 2008

With Israeli resources strained to assure quality training and equipment for the army, navy and air force, the mission of the FIDF and its Israeli counterpart, the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel\’s Soldiers, is to provide the extras and comforts to relieve the daily pressures of combat service.

Meet the IDF: Shimon Siso, 23, Golani Infantry Brigade

Jewish Journal December 10, 2008

\” . . . The terrorists send missiles into Israel from schools in highly populated areas, so we have to go into their homes to get them without hurting innocent passersby or children,\” he said. \”We usually succeed in our missions, but we sometimes have to give up the lives of our soldiers in order to do it . . . \”

Debate rages over attack on Jewish soldier at Ft. Benning

Jewish Journal October 13, 2008

All sides agree that a beating last month left a Jewish U.S. Army trainee, Private Michael Handman, with facial wounds, severe oral injuries and a concussion. What\’s in dispute is whether the assault — at the base in Fort Benning, Ga. — was carried out by multiple attackers, and if it was the product of an anti-Semitic campaign waged by Handman\’s superiors.

The soldier in the center ring

Jewish Journal August 7, 2008

As far as he has traveled, from Israel to Southern California, Ben-Binyamin has come an even greater distance in recent years in his transition from the IDF to the circus, a change he refers to as \”extreme.\”

A Zionist without quotation marks

Dikla Kadosh July 2, 2008

Yaron Amitai was the oldest soldier killed in the Second Lebanon War. At 45, he was past the required age for army reserve duty. Amitai nevertheless volunteered to serve as a combat medic in the Paratroopers Brigade scheduled to go into Lebanon

TV: Shoah makes searing mark in Ken Burns WWII documentary

Steven Rosen September 21, 2007

\”We wanted to use four [American] towns as examples to get to know people — those who fought and those who stayed at home — and to get to their experiences as it happened.\”

The result is Burns and co-director Lynn Novick seeing the war as it was unfolding through the eyes of soldiers from Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento; Waterbury, Conn., and Luverne, Minn., to show, in so many ways, the ongoing hellishness of even a necessary war.

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