Samuel Joseph Milstein, at The Blogs

Jun 3, 2024, 12:10 AM

The country that murdered my family welcomed me — Israel won’t

The author at Maria-Theresien-Kaserne
after his Angelobungen (swearing in ceremony)

It's hypocrisy to demand Haredi enlistment to fill depleted IDF ranks while turning away a Diaspora Jew who is eager to serve

About Me

Samuel Joseph Milstein is a Jewish recruit in the Austrian Bundesheer the first Jew to naturalize under the 2020 law restoring citizenship to Holocaust descendants to serve the Austrian military. He worked previously for the US Commerce Department and NYC Health + Hospitals as their Yiddish Language Partnership and Community Engagement Specialist respectively.