Fall 2011 - Jewish War Veterans of the United States

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New MembersDEPARTMENT AT LARGEAlicia Cole-100 • Stephen Linsky-100 •Benjamin May-100 • Theodore Shultz-100DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIAAaron Avila-118 • Robert Padilla-118 • JolieGrossman-185DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTSCary M. Dash-26 • Benjamin Apkin-140 •Leland B. Goldberg- 211DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGANMax Fertel-135 • Calvin Lippitt-474 • RichardLuterman-474 • Norman Stern-474 • RobertTam-474DEPARTMENT OF NEVADAKenneth Lee Kneitinger-21 • Alan H.Backman-64 • Barry Freedman-65 • WilliamHauser-65 • Arthur Kunis-65DEPARTMENT OF NEW JERSEYSol Bunin-125 • Bennie Boydman-536 •Sam Yablonsky-536 • Alvin Blumenfeld-609• Woody Schlackman-609 • FrederickSturim-651 • Robert Cohen-741 • MortonPeople & Places►►Nassau/Suffolk District Council CommanderLew Wanderlich and NY State DeputyCommander David Zwern presented theBrenner-Jaffe Memorial Award to Senior ViceCommander Buddy Epstein and CommanderJohn Robbins of the Chwatsky-Farber Post717 NY for the most outstanding Newsletter/Bulletin.►►Retired Tech Sgt Mervin Suskind US Armyand member of Post 128 AZ received a medalfrom the French government for being part ofthe Normandy invasion of France in June 1944during WWII.►►Lifetime member Joseph Lubell, Post 239PA, received the Human Relations Award fromthe City of Allentown, PA. He was commendedby Congressman Charles Dent (R-PA) andMayor Ed Pawlowski for his volunteer work inteaching the Holocaust at Cedar Crest Collegeand Muhlenberg College.►►Post 185 CA held a dedication ceremonyfor the JWV monument on the “MemorialWalkway” at Miramar National Cemetery inSan Diego, CA. Attendees included CantorLarry Kornit; Congresswoman Susan Davis.and post members Howard Ruhm; VickiNenner; former Air Force nurse; Rabbi BenLiner-741 • Herbert Schleifer-741 • KalmanWilliam Stein-741DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORKHenry Shulman-41 • Jeffrey Elliot-425 •Jonathan Green-425 • Samuel Scherek-652 •Charles Krinitz-717 • Stanley R. Lieber-717 •Barnett Cohen-764 • Martin Hande-776DEPARTMENT OF OHIORobert Lancz-44 • Harold Levine-44DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIALawrence Spiegel-575 • Robert Berezin-706• Seymour Jacobs-706 • Herbert Katz-706 •Martha F. Maddox-706 • Arnold Turetzky-706• William Forman-791 • Everett Leonard-791DEPARTMENT OF SOUTHWESTMichael S. Chambers-210 • Sidney Reiff-619DEPARTMENT OF TALOJule Bovis-256 • Joe C. Chow-256 • NolanLasovich-256 • Allen Kenneth Pearlman-256• Igor Cherepanov-753 • Stewart Million-Perez-753 • David Rubenstein-753 • JonathanLevi Ben-Meir-755 • Jack Marsh-755Leinow; Allen Miliefsky, Lt/Col, USAF Ret.,JWV Department of California Commander.►►A new flagpole and American flag weredonated to the Talmud Torah day school in St.Paul, MN by JWV Posts 162 and 354. Thededication ceremony was held on VeteransDay and representatives from both Posts madepresentations to the students.►►On Sunday, December 4th, 2011,Congregation Sons of Israel teamed withmembers of the Peabody Veterans Council andparticipated in a traditional Pearl Harbor DayObservance. This event was hosted by Post 220MA and the Ladies Auxiliary. Bernie Horowitzled the Service and explained to all in attendancethe symbolic examples of our culture, whileconducting a traditional Jewish Service. He alsorecognized the men and women who gave theirlives on the morning of December 7th, 1941.Colonel Barry Lischinsky (Ret), Commanderof Post 220 gave a brief history of the eventssurrounding that tragic morning on the islandof Hawaii. The service concluded with theveterans and Congregation members recitingthe Mourner’s Kaddish in memory of the 2,400military and civilians whose lives were lost onDecember 7th, 1941.Reunions►►World War II Vets, the 494th BombardmentGroup (H) is holding a reunion April 25-29,2012 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the HolidayInn; 501-375-2100. For more information,contact Marshall Keller at 248-626-3684.►►Navy NMCB 128 will hold its 45th reunionApril 17-19, 2012 in Mobile, Alabama, at theAshbury Hotel & Suites. Phone 1-800-752-0398. For more information, contact GeorgeMcDanel, 618-259-4694 or email mcdanelgk@aol.com. This event is open to all MCB 128Seabees.►►The USS Iwo Jima (LPH2/LHD7)Shipmates reunion is being held June 6-10,2012 in McLean, VA at the Crowne Plaza Hotelin Tysons Corner. For more information contactRobert G. McAnally, 757-723-0317 or emailyujack@megalink.net. This event is open to allships company and embarked Navy and MarineCorps personnel.If you would like to receivethis year’s calendar:“Patriots Yesterday, Patriots Today,”please contact Ruby DesChamps, in theJWV Development Department.E-mail: rdeschamps@jwv.orgP: 202-265-6280. EX. 401The JWV calendar is unique, combininginformation ordinarily found on a Hebrewyear calendar in a Jan.-Dec. format, whiletelling the story of Jewish service to theAmerican military and supporting theJewish War Veterans.Social Security Benefit forSpecial Extra EarningsIndividuals who served inthe military betweenJan. 1, 1957 and Dec. 31, 2001are eligible for a higher socialsecurity payment.According to the Social SecurityAdministration, special extraearnings from military servicecan be credited to an individual’ssocial security record. Thesecredits can increase the amountof social security benefit receivedup to $1,200 per calendar year.To learn more, visit:www.ssa.gov/retire2/military.htm.16 The Jewish Veteran Fall • 2011 www.jwv.org
Better Recruitment and Retention UsingSocial MediaBy PDC Darin Selnick, NECThe Jewish War Veterans, like all the other veteranservice organizations, is struggling withhow to attract new and younger members andretain existing members. The answer lies withbeing good at using social media. Increasinglyyounger and older active duty military and veteransare connecting, communicating, and supportingeach other online. It is not enough tojust have a web site or Facebook page or twitteraccount, as who will see it or find it?Today, if you want to be successful and recruitnew members you not only have to be onall of the social networking sites, you have tofind a way for active duty military and veteransto find you. Then you have to be able to keepthem engaged by developing an online presenceof personal and group connections, products,and services. How do you do that and how doyounger military and veterans find you?My research shows there are approximately26 major web sites that cater to the military andveteran community. Although many web sitesoffer some targeted engagement for our community,there is no one secure place that welcomesall members of the military community to interactsocially and connect to benefits, programs,and local services. Today’s younger veteranswant to find their peers and find opportunitiessuch as jobs, benefits, and services. Social siteslike Facebook and LinkedIn are clear leaders,but they do little for veterans and for outreach,since their focus is to remain broad and not focusedon the military community.How do you put this all together? TheDepartment of California has decided to trya new path by teaming up with ArmedZilla.Through ArmedZilla.com, we look to improveour recruitment and retention by offering onestop shopping for all of our social media needs.What is ArmedZilla.com? ArmedZilla isa social network connecting the military communityand its supporters in one secure place.It is veteran-founded and designed to bring togetherveterans, service members, families, andsupporters. It brings the military community togetheronline and creates a support communityto help ease the transition from the service, providebetter access to veteran benefits, vso’s, andother organizations that support them.ArmedZilla.com does that by its tools.KeyPoints, a visual military profile, letsmembers share their stories and life experiences.Channels allows groups, organizations,and businesses to create pages within specificcategories to promote programs, products andservices in the areas of employment; education;health and wellness; housing; finance; life; veteransupport; military; news; and entertainment.At the Dept of California, we have createdboth a channel page and an offering page onArmedZilla.com. We will be expanding ourpresence by creating additional offerings andgroup pages. Our current pages give us the abilityto communicate, send out information, andshare all of our information and events. Newgroup pages will give us the ability to have aprivate group page for just our California JWVmembers and to have a hidden private page justfor the Department staff and officers.By being on ArmedZilla.com and by usingall of the new internet social media tools in acoordinated effort, we hope to finally bringthe Department of California up-to-date and togrow through new members and retention ofexisting members. As Steve Jobs said, “Andno, we don't know where it will lead. We justknow there's something much bigger than anyof us here.”Military.com’s Benefit Calculator is designedto connect you with military benefitsinformation based on your service andstatus. The calculator can help you locateFederal benefits, State Benefits, NationalGuard State Benefits, and special militarydiscounts.To learn more about this resource, visit:http://benefits.military.com/reg/Veterans-Benefits.doVA’s Veteran Canteen ServiceHelping Homeless VeteransThe Department of Veterans Affairs is reaching out tohomeless Veterans by providing free meals and spendingmoney to eligible homeless Veterans.The free meals will be offered at Veterans CanteenService (VCS) cafeterias to homeless Veterans attendingtheir first VA medical appointment. New Veterans participatingin the Housing and Urban Development and VASupportive Housing program, who present signed leaseswill also receive a $20 coupon to be used in VCS retailstores located at every VA medical center.VCS also facilitates vendor donations to various homelessprograms, including local VA stand downs and communityorganizations. VCS operates more than 170 retailstores and cafeterias at VA medical centers acrossthe nation, providing competitively priced food andmerchandise to VA patients, their families, caregivers,VA employees, volunteers and visitors.www.jwv.org Fall • 2011 The Jewish Veteran17
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