A Website for Jewish Women in the US Military?
As I have noted elsewhere: jews are significantly underrepresented in United States military, especially in combat roles, (1) and that said underrepresentation is historic as well as current. (2)
Therefore, I was highly amused when I read the following snippet in a 2016 article published by ‘Savannah Now’:
‘Nili Gingold-Altchek, 31, lacks the right word — for the moment.
The petite Savannah dynamo with the sequins on her black beret is otherwise quite adept saying what she wants, even in broken English.
The mother of two just started a website for Jewish females in the U.S. Military. They can ask a rabbi questions, find help after sexual abuse or learn ways to keep Yom Kippur in the middle of an Iraq war zone.’ (3)
Gingold-Altchek’s idea was to provide a service for a minority of a minority (jewish women in the US military), which became the tiny organization ‘Bizchut Nashim’ and falsely assumed – as many jews seem to – that there are plenty of jews in the US military… somewhere.
The simple fact is that there was never going to be any real demand for this service, which services a niche of a niche. There is also already a major competitor in the form of the members of the rabbinate who are also US military chaplains to the few jews that are actually in the US military.
I really don’t understand what Gingold-Altchek was thinking, but hey: who am I to complain about jews wasting their time and resources?
References
(1) See my articles: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/dual-loyalty-american-jewish-military and https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jews-and-the-military-the-united
(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jews-and-military-service-the-united
(3) http://savannahnow.com/accent-column/2016-05-28/savannah-woman-vows-win-silence-against-abuse