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A Jewish-American World War II hero who stormed Utah beach on D-Day and went missing after being ambushed in the Battle of Cherbourg has finally been found.

Lieutenant Nathan Baskind, the son of Jewish Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, served in D-Day then disappeared in the Battle of Cherbourg on June 23, 1944.

The event, held Aug. 14-16, is titled “Advocating for Israel: More Challenging and More Important Than Ever.”The post Zionist Rabbinic Coalition holds second annual conference in Washington appeared first on

The series canvasses the vast timeline of Jewish history, from events like the Bar Kochba rebellion, to the Holocaust, and the terror attacks of the twentieth century.

On Feb. 17, 1941, 26-year-old Benjamin Garadetsky enlisted in the U.S. Army. Tragically, Garadetsky would lose his life during a Nazi bombing raid in August 1944, and like many of

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Many Jewish veterans of WWII were mistakenly given Christian gravestones. Operation Benjamin is trying to fix that.

Fifty years ago, as a young student activist deeply involved in the Religious Zionists of America, the Mizrachi Organization’s arm in the United States, I started a PR campaign for Israel and called it “Israel at 25, Happy Free and Alive.” Being professionally involved in graphic arts and print marketing, I printed up thousands of “Israel at 25” bumper stickers which eventually adorned the bumpers of many cars in numerous Jewish communities in the United States.

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