BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — After a thrilling 1-0 victory over Uzbekistan on Tuesday, the Israeli under-20 national soccer team advanced to the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina.
Israeli-Arab forward Anan Khalaili scored the winning...
In March, the Jewish owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, committed $25 million to launch a new campaign called “Stand Up to Jewish Hate,” to drive home the message that antisemitism must not be tolerated. Now the story of how the entire...
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — In its first-ever appearance in the tournament, Israel’s under-20 men’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the FIFA U20 World Cup with a last-minute goal against Japan on Saturday.
Israel was an underdog going into...
Bill Motchan, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 29, 2023
Over Memorial Day weekend, as a Jewish Light freelance reporter and photographer, I spent time at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex where much of the 2023 St. Louis Senior Olympics were taking place. More than 1,200 athletes, ages...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 25, 2023
The 2023 St. Louis Senior Olympics officially began Thursday, May 25, with opening ceremonies at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex. A group of athletes and event sponsors passed the torch to mark the beginning of the 43rd annual...
Doug Cohen and Marty Hogan competed in the National Masters Racquetball Association national championships last month in St. Louis. The NMRA is exclusively for racquetball players in the 45-and-over age groups. Cohen placed first in the men’s singles...
Peter Dreier, Jewish Women’s Archive
• Published May 18, 2023
With baseball season well underway, now's a good time to consider the role of women, including Jewish women, in baseball. At both the professional and college levels, a growing number of women are now part of the sport—as players, coaches, sportswriters,...
(JTA) — Decades before Sandy Koufax sat out the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, and 18 years before Greenberg chased Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in the late 1930s, a college athlete made some overlooked...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 14, 2023
Just hours before entering the octagon in Charlotte, N.C., Jewish Israeli UFC Lightweight fighter Natan Levy learned that the preparation, training, and mental discipline he used to prepare for his match Saturday night against another fighter named Pete...
(JTA) — On one wall of the dining hall at the Indiana University Hillel sit 36 framed photographs of Jewish alumni who have made an impact in the sports industry, from athletes to executives. It’s the IU Jewish Sports Wall of Fame.
One of those...
(New York Jewish Week) — What better way to recover from an injury than some Jewish penicillin? And that is just what former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Harrison Bader got recently in New York.
Now a New York Yankee, Jewish outfielder Bader, who...
(JTA via J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — When the Sacramento Kings face the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs starting this weekend, they will be led by their Lithuanian-American — and soon-to-be-Jewish —...
