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jewish
At Maccabi, forging Jewish identity between the baselines
Louis Keene
August 24, 2016
When I was 10, my family got frum, and I started playing baseball. Oddly, the overlap wasn’t a coincidence: Our new rabbi added me to his Little League team and taught me how to throw; I broke in my first mitt — and a new peer group — playing catch with his son.
Thanks to viral video, Holocaust survivor gets wish to sing at Detroit Tigers game
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2016
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor will sing the American national anthem at a Detroit Tigers baseball game, after her granddaughter circulated a video of her that went viral online.
Israel looks to the United States for baseball tutors
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2015
Baseball is known as the national pastime of the United States.
Israel baseball creating diamonds in the desert
Jewish Journal
November 4, 2015
America’s pastime, meet the Holy Land.
How a bunch of Hollywood Jews saved youth baseball in South Los Angeles
Jared Sichel
June 25, 2015
“Oh! Oh! That’s my baby! Right there! He’s catching it!” Bridgette Harper called out as her son, Dillen, 11, stood at shortstop, glove in the air, his eyes on the baseball plummeting toward him.
Time for a kosher hot dog and a beer and Dodger baseball
Michael Berenbaum
April 8, 2015
Spring is upon us. The seders are over, the Iran problem endures. Romance is in the air and, with romance, some men’s and women’s hearts turn to baseball.
Echoes of Greenberg: Tigers roaring with Jewish duo Ausmus and Kinsler
Jeffrey Hensiek
May 19, 2014
The rarity arose in the initial meeting of first-year Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus and his second baseman Ian Kinsler, newly traded from the Texas Rangers: a Jewish player reporting to a Jewish manager.
Jews and baseball: An American news media love story
Bill Boyarsky
November 26, 2013
For those of us who follow the careers of Jewish ballplayers — a small, eccentric niche of fandom — checking the Jewish Baseball News Web site is an essential part of our sports routine.
Tigers summon the tribe, swap Prince Fielder for Ian Kinsler
Jewish Journal
November 21, 2013
Detroit is bringing in the Jews. A couple of weeks after hiring Brad Ausmus as manager, the Tigers on Wednesday traded for Ian Kinsler, previously of the Texas Rangers, to play second base.
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