Jerry Klinger is the founding president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, which has placed monuments and plaques across the United States and in other countries detailing the history of Jewish individuals and communities.
By Rosalea Hostetler HARPER, Kansas — As a little girl growing up on a small Kansas farm, I loved books at an early age because my Mom or Dad read them to me. The first one I remember was about Baby Moses in the bull rushes. I can still see the drawing of a baby […]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two recent honors in my life undoubtedly will have a positive influence on the kinds of stories that will appear in San Diego Jewish World. Recently, I was elected to the presidency of the Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish History, a group interested in promoting
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By Jerry Klinger HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi — I have dedicated scores of historical markers and memorials across America as President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP). Almost all the projects have a Jewish theme or background story. Next month in Marietta, Georgia, JASHP will dedicate the first ever anti-lynching memorial to all
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By Jerry Klinger TRINIDAD, Colorado — Temple Aaron in this city celebrated its 130th birthday, Big Time on the weekend of June 21-23. The Temple is 200 miles from Denver, 200 miles from Albuquerque, 200 miles from nearly everything sustainably Jewish. Its last full-time rabbi died 103 years ago. Yet, the town enduringly refuses to
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Sergio Carmona Florida Jewish Journal Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach [Florida] is on a mission to make sure that American liberators of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald are honored with a memorial. Buchenwald, a Nazi camp established on Ettersberg Hill near Weimar, Germany, was liberated by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s United States Third
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Whether one agrees with Michael Shapiro’s listings in his 1995 book The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of all Time or not, the book should make us think not only whether we would agree with his selections, whether we would delete
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By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — For most, Memorial Day is another day off. Another excuse not to go to work and grill hamburgers, or go to the beach and kvetch about politics and the decline of American society. However, Memorial Day is really a day to stop and assess the meaning of
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By Jerry Klinger CHENEY, Washington — The Great Drum was rhythmically beaten by ten Native American Salish Singers seated about it. Their Song drifted over the Palouse Prairie as it had before for untold years. Hundreds gathered on the high ridge above Eastern Washington University, below the white colored water tower with the school’s
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By Jerry Klinger WEST POINT, New York — After 70 years, and considerable effort by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, the volunteer veterans of Israel’s War of Independence were finally, officially, thanked by the State of Israel. A citation was presented by Major General Michael Edelstein, Israel Defense Attache to the U.S., in
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He found ways to obtain U.S. visas for persecuted European Jews By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — On April 26, President Donald Trump declared Holocaust Remembrance Week to culminate with Yom HaShoah, May 1-2. Ebie Wood is the president of the historical society of Pound Ridge, New York. Many months earlier, she and the
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By Jerry Klinger ROCKVILLE, Maryland — One can live in a neighborhood and never know the Jewish story that was right in front of them. I lived in Rockville for more than forty years. I never knew the long road ending public school segregation in America began in a Jewish funded public elementary school, the
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I alighted from my pony, and gave him the range of his lariat. I perceived that he preferred a breakfast of fresh grass to the contemplation of the sublime scene around me, to which he seemed totally indifferent. — Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last
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By Dave Schechter Atlanta Jewish Times MARIETTA, Georgia — On Roswell Road in Marietta, bordered on one side by a restaurant parking lot and on the other by Interstate 75, is a strip of grass and shrubbery with a sidewalk that leads to two memorials. Leo Frank, a Jew, was lynched on August 17, 1915, in
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By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every year, about this time of year, Christmas themed movies are flooding T.V. screens across the country. Ranked #9 out of 100 by the American Film Institute greatest films of all times is the 1947 beloved holiday comedy classic, Miracle on 34th Street. It is a warm feeling
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