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 Jerry Klinger Herman Stern was a small-town North Dakota clothier based in Valley City. He was isolated, remote from any major Jewish community. He and his wife lived their lives modestly and with community respected dignity on the Dakota Plains. Stern became a major, American Holocaust rescuer. On Oct. 15, 2016, the State Historical […]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Jerry Klinger Would you Believe?……. “Broncho Billy” Anderson was the stage name of Gilbert Maxwell Aronson, America’s first cowboy movie star. Anderson pioneered the genre that eventually produced stars such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, and Tom Mix. Anderson also worked behind the camera as a director and producer and
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His grave site plaque says “Jesus is Coming” By Jerry Klinger GLENDALE, California — Wednesday, September 28, at the Upper Esplanade Courtyard of the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale overlooking a spectacular vista of the valley below, hundreds of white folded seats were prepared and soon filled with Christian and Jewish attendees honoring the memory
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Jerry Klinger “Grandpa, who was the first Jewish governor in America?” “Well, Chandler, the answer it’s not that simple. The first Catholic Governor in America is not identified with a nationality or ethnicity – just American. The first Protestant Governor in America is not identified with a nationality or ethnicity – just American. Jews…
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By Jerry Klinger It‘s an unusual statement, “He did what no Jew could do.” Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel coined it. She coined it to recognize the special service of Rev. John Stanley Grauel to Israel. Rev. Grauel served as a secret Haganah Agent on the famed Holocaust Refugee ship the Exodus. Yet, Meir’s
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The founding of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation. www.JASHP.org By Jerry Klinger LAS VEGAS, New Mexico — As a kid, my mother won out over my father’s wishes. I was sent to yeshiva for my first eight years of schooling. I learned Torah, Talmud, how to put on Tefilin and yes wander
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By Jerry Klinger July 18, 1947, in international waters off the coast of Sinai, a shadowing British battle fleet attacked an unarmed American Chesapeake Bay steamer, the President Warfield. They had been shadowing the lumbering vessel since she left Sete in France. A warning to stop and submit to boarding came from the light cruiser
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USAThe Jewish Farming Settlement of Clarion, Utah: The Possible, Impossible dream (Editor’s Note: The following historical article is reprinted with permission from the Winter 2016 edition of Western States Jewish Quarterly.) By Jerry Klinger CLARION, Utah — European anti-Semitism had not improved by the latter half of the 19th century. If anything it became more vicious. “What
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