Support Our Soldiers

Welcome to this web page, which is devoted exclusively to supporting our men and women of the Armed Forces who are stationed overseas.

Our SOS — Support Our Soldiers program has three elements, each supported by your donations and fund raising events:

Eighth Annual “SALUTE TO THE TROOPS” Concert, May 30, 2010

Free admission to all members of the Armed Forces.

[SALUTE TO THE TROOPS Concert]

The Eighth Annual JWV "SALUTE TO THE TROOPS" Concert will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 30, 2010 to raise additional funds to ship more GI- Hygiene/Travel Kits to our soldiers. These Kits, which contain 17 personal toilet articles and a deck of playing cards, are also given to our "Wounded Warriors" who receive them in U.S. Military Hopitals in the USA and Germany. They have proven to be a very popular and most desirable gift.

Once again, the Town of Ramapo, with Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence and The Town Council, will partner with the Jewish War Veterans to co-host this event. Last year’s Memorial Concert was helped by The Suffern High School, and our annual benevolent sponsors, namely: The Orange and Rockland Uilities, The Provident Bank, The Tri-State Media Penny Saver, The Journal News and The Rockland County Legislature. A Buffet Luncheon will again be served to our Hospitalized Veterans at the Outback Steakhouse in Suffern, NY.


Summary Report, March 31, 2010

The Rockland-Orange District of the Jewish War Veterans, and the six Veteran Posts within the District, can be very proud of their accomplishments to carry out programs to “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.” In February, 2002 we inaugurated our District program by making our first shipment of Gift-Pak Cartons to the 812th Military Police, whose home base is at the Military Reserve Center located in Orangeburg, NY.

Due to our very successful methods in implementing and shipping Gift-Pak Cartons to our troops overseas, in August, 2006 we added a  special program to provide IDF Convenience Kits to assist the Israel Defense Forces  who are our allies in fighting terrorists, with a separate fund raising drive that did not conflict with our “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” Program. In addition, every year we raise separate funds for a Special KOSHER FOR PASSOVER PROGRAM to supply our chaplains, lay leaders, and individual troops with KP cartons for the holidays.

This year, 2010, with our GI Travel Kit, we are able to supply many more men and women of our Armed Forces, regardless of their race, color, creed or religion, and let them know that The Jewish War Veterans and other supporters of the troops are thinking of them, and supplying them with some needed items that they can use.

Listed below is a summary of items shipped from February 2002 through March 31, 2010:

  7001 GIFT-PAK CARTONS (VALUED AT $50 EACH) TO OUR TROOPS
10988 GI TRAVEL KITS
  1387 GI HYGIENE KITS (NEW ITEM) FOR “WOUNDED WARRIORS”

Included in the above was a total of 1596 GI TRAVEL KITS that were shipped to Ft. Bragg, NC and Ft. Riley, KS for the Easter Holiday to New York’s Famous Fighting 69th Infantry. The troops, who are part of New York’s 27th Brigade, received the kits on the day before they were again deployed, this time to Afghanistan. In March of 2008, we received from the Starbucks Coffee Denver region a donation of over 2000 one-pound bags of coffee. JWV shipped it to Ft. Bragg, NC, which the 82nd Airborne Division gratefully took with them when they were redeployed overseas.

Also, as of March 31, 2010, 660 more GI TRAVEL KITS were given by our District to Ft. Dix, NJ and at the same time 330 GI HYGIENE KITS were given to Ft. Dix by the Pfc. Frederick Hecht Post #425, the largest JWV Post in the R/O District and the largest Post in NY State.

The financial help that we received from the Town of Ramapo, The Rockland County Legislature, officials of various municipal and state entities, the business and financial communities, and most important from our residents in Rockland have made our programs very successful.

Certificates of Appreciation

Certificate of Appreciation

We are very proud of the Certificate of Appreciation presented to us by the Multi-National Corps Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 Past Events 

Bill Farber
Rockland-Orange District Chairman
845-357-2990

Rockland-Orange District Council
JEWISH WAR VETERANS of the U.S.A.
PO Box 38
New City, NY 10956-2914