Today we celebrate Veterans Day in the United States. We salute all of the brave men and women of who have fought for our freedoms and defended us against our enemies for more than two centuries. Recently, Rabbi Eckstein wrote about a new documentary – Above and Beyond – that tells the story of volunteer airmen who went to the newly independent Jewish state in 1948 to help fight off the Arab attack that followed Israel’s declaration of independence. These pilots not only turned the tide of the war in Israel’s favor, they laid the groundwork for today’s Israeli...
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