A new clothing line celebrates the Jewish soldier – The Forward
Jack Perez makes clothes for Jewish soldiers. In a way, Mel Gibson is to blame. In 2011, a few years after spouting that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” during a DUI arrest, the filmmaker announced that he was making a biopic of one of our most celebrated warriors, Judah Maccabee. “That never materialized,” Perez, 36, said from Washington, where he is an Army specialist based in Fort Lewis. But the project got him thinking: “Why should this guy — who’s now in headlines for antisemitism — get to tell what is essentially one of our coolest stories?” Since ...
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