Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Jewish baseball exhibition

By Ryan Torok

You don’t have to be the next Sandy Koufax — or even a Major League Baseball player — to make it into an upcoming exhibition related to Jews. . .

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Charity wins over runners

by Zan Romanoff, Contributing Writer

More than 20,000 runners participated in the Jerusalem Marathon on March 1, completing a course that started at the Knesset and passed a number of. . .

Friday, March 1, 2013

Beren loses quadruple overtime thriller

JTA

Beren Academy, which made international headlines last year with its battle to avoid a forfeit in the Texas state boys' basketball tournament over a. . .

Monday, February 25, 2013

Cavs’ Casspi undergoes appendectomy

JTA

Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the NBA, had an appendectomy.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Israeli soccer player on U.K. team barred from entering Dubai

JTA

An Israeli soccer player for a British team is sitting out a team visit to Dubai because of tensions between the emirate and Israel.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans protest hiring of Muslim players

JTA

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club are protesting its decision to bring in two Muslim players. The players from the Chechen Terek Gorzny team. . .

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Frisbee — the ultimate peace negotiator

By Ryan Torok

Who would have thought that a Frisbee could be used to build bridges between bitter enemies? Ultimate Peace, an organization founded in 2008 by. . .

Friday, December 28, 2012

Former Israel national soccer coach Emanuel Sheffer dies at 88

Reuters

Emanuel Sheffer - the coach who led Israel to their only World Cup finals in Mexico in 1970 - died on Friday aged 88, the Israel Football Association. . .

Monday, December 24, 2012

Israeli tennis star, 12, wins prestigious tournament

JTA

Israeli 12-year-old Yshai Oliel won an international tennis tournament that has launched the careers of some of the world's tennis stars. Yshai Oliel. . .

Monday, December 24, 2012

Adam Greenberg signs minor league deal with Baltimore Orioles

JTA

Jewish player Adam Greenberg will resume his professional baseball career after signing a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. Greenberg,. . .

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

BREAKING: LAPD investigating bomb threat near Wilshire Boulevard Temple

By JewishJournal

LAPD units on the scene at Wilshire Blvd. Temple‘s Koreatown synagogue are deploying bomb disposal units and robotic devices “to assess the. . .

Monday, December 10, 2012

Marty Reisman: Table-tennis wizard saved a classic game

The Daily Beast

Watch the newsreel below and observe a fabled minute in the life and times of Marty Reisman, who died on Friday at age 81. It is 1949 and the scene. . .

Friday, December 7, 2012

Yankees offer Youkilis $12 million

JTA

The New York Yankees reportedly offered Jewish free agent Kevin Youkilis a one-year, $12 million contract.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

In gear for Maccabiah Games

By Tom Tugend

When Steve Pompan played on the U.S. tennis squad at the last Maccabiah Games in Israel, he was struck by the spectators’ tribal inclination to. . .

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

George McGovern, pacifist who wanted to bomb Auschwitz dies at 90

by Rafael Medoff

George McGovern is widely remembered for advocating immediate American withdrawal from Vietnam and sharp reductions in defense spending. Yet despite. . .

Monday, October 15, 2012

Cletus ‘The Hebrew Hammer’ Seldin moves to 9-0 with third-round KO

JTA

Jewish welterweight Cletus "The Hebrew Hammer" Seldin won by a third-round knockout, bringing his record to 9-0.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Reports that Allen Iverson will play for Maccabi Haifa are false

by Neil Rubin, JTA

Reports that retired NBA star Allen Iverson will play for Israel's Maccabi Haifa basketball team in two upcoming exhibition games against NBA teams. . .

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Iverson signing on with Maccabi Haifa for U.S. games—and maybe longer

JTA

Former NBA Most Valuable Player Allen Iverson reportedly will play for Maccabi Haifa in its two exhibition games against NBA teams -- and perhaps. . .

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

All-star Jewish baseball team

by Peter Dreier

During Yom Kippur, many Jews fret over whether Jewish Major Leaguers will play on the holiest of holidays. This has become a growing problem, because. . .

Friday, September 21, 2012

Parallel universe: A Jewish what if

by George Karp

In 1901, a sixteen year old Jewish girl from Hungary, Kati Berger, along with several brothers and sisters, arrived at Ellis Island in New York. A. . .

Friday, September 21, 2012

Israel beats Spain, one win away from qualifying for World Baseball Classic

JTA

First baseman Nate Freiman hit two home runs as Israel beat Spain 4-2 in the qualifying round of World Baseball Classic, putting the Isaeli team one. . .

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Israel defeats South Africa in World Baseball Classic Qualifier

JTA

Israel defeated South Africa in the first game of the World Baseball Classic Qualifier.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Teshuvah and Penn State

by David E. Ostrich, JTA

In our busy lives, there are lots of decisions to make. Although we know that quick judgments made without all the facts may be faulty, we do not. . .

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Art Modell, ex-owner of NFL’s Browns and Ravens, dies

JTA

Art Modell, former owner of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns, has died.