(JTA) — Chicago Cubs first baseman Matt Mervis is selling T-shirts and hats emblazoned with his nickname spelled in Hebrew to raise money for the Israel Association of Baseball.
“It’s a great cause to help grow the game in Israel,” Mervis told...
LA PLATA, Argentina (JTA) — Israel won third place in the U-20 World Cup on Sunday, capping a historic run in its first-ever appearance at the tournament by beating South Korea 3-1.
Local Jews and Israeli visitors made up a large portion of the crowd...
(JTA) — Israel’s under-20 men’s team defeated Brazil 3-2 in the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup on Saturday, their most shocking win in a string of dramatic underdog victories at the tournament.
The player who scored the winning goal...
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...
