For the first time ever, the Olympic Games held a moment of silence during the opening ceremony for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the Munich Olympics in 1972. There, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September attacked members of the Israeli Olympic team, ultimately killing six coaches and five athletes, as well as a West…
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A record year for Israel at the Olympics?
Will it be a historic Olympics for Israel? The Associated Press thinks so. On its list of predicted medalists for each event in Tokyo published Monday,…
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Second Orthodox baseball player drafted into the MLB in 2 days
It has now become a doubly historic Major League Baseball draft. The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman with their final and 20th round pick on…
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Olympic baseball puts Israel's US players in touch with Jewish identity
In May, as the latest violent Israel-Gaza conflict heated up, Ty Kelly did something he could never do in any other professional baseball dugout: He…
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Keitel does Lansky; Jurnee joins the Academy; etc.
A gangster and a Jew Harvey Keitel, 82, is taking on the role of gangster Meyer Lansky, the “mob’s accountant” who oversaw and ran crime rackets from…
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All the Jewish athletes to watch at the Tokyo Olympics
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though…
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49ers draft Jew of color to tackle diversity
Though she calls herself an “art kid” at her core, Christina Jefferson is no stranger to contact sports. Recently hired by the San Francisco 49ers to lead…