Lone Soldier
American lone soldiers celebrating Thanksgiving at the Center for American Jewry in Jerusalem. (Photo by Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson's Film Unit)
November 6, 2024, 11:57 am
‘I have a funny story to tell you’
When my youngest called this morning and started by saying he had a “funny story” to tell me, I didn’t expect that story to include the word shrapnel.
By Stacie Rojas Stufflebeam
IDF vehicle (Photo by Mussi Katz / public domain)
December 9, 2020, 6:22 pm
Helping our lone soldier along his path
"We know that each of our children is on their own path and one of our most important jobs as parents is to help guide and support them as they make their way along that path."
By Stacie Stufflebeam
Pittsburgh native and Israeli lone soldier Pvt. Jacob Wiesenfeld, technical assistance in the Northern Command. Photo courtesy of Pvt. Jacob Wiesenfeld.
May 15, 2020, 8:53 am
Pittsburgh lone soldier felt the tug of ‘land, people and Torah’
Jacob Wiesenfeld recounts the journey from Pittsburgh to yeshiva to IDF
By David Rullo
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