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16 Jewish Medal of Honor Honorees and All Veterans to be Celebrated Nov. 8 at 7 P.M.
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16 Jewish Medal of Honor Honorees and All Veterans to be Celebrated Nov. 8 at 7 P.M.
Friday, November 8, 7:00 p.m. - Glazer Campus (eastside)
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“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.”
Benjamin Levy, Henry Heller, Benjamin Kaufman, Raymond Zussman, Tibor Rubin…
These aren’t household names. They didn’t make the front page of the country’s largest publications. Nonetheless, they are heroes. They are heroes forever immortalized through their actions. These men are Jewish military veterans who earned the Medal of Honor, the highest and most prestigious military decoration.
In a special Glazer Campus Shabbat service on Friday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m., Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the California Military Museum Command join forces to commemorate these veterans, their stories, and others like them at “Honoring Our Veterans Shabbat.”
Following the Shabbat service is the official opening of the Jewish American Medal of Honor Recipients exhibit in the Glazer Campus Gold Gallery. The exhibition is a result of recovering lost information. Within files abandoned at a military base in Los Alamitos are the historical documents— which range in date from the Civil War to the Vietnam War—that tell the stories of the 16 Jewish Medal of Honor recipients. In the months of its display at the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, the exhibit drew the admiration of more than 50,000 visitors. The 16 display cases contain stories, era-specific memorabilia, and Medal of Honor replicas in recognition of each Jewish Medal of Honor recipient.
“What’s most intriguing is the curation of these stories and bringing them to life,” said Marc S. Cohen, a Wilshire Boulevard Temple congregant and Lieutenant Colonel in the California State Guard. “Just confirming the soldiers’ Jewish heritage required thorough research. In the interest of self-protection, some had concealed their Jewish identities by changing their last names, making for extraordinarily difficult research.”
A docent-guided tour is available upon request until the exhibit leaves Wilshire Boulevard Temple on December 2. For more information or to schedule a tour, please call (213) 999-9064.
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