(JTA) — On a night when Dean Kremer became the first Israeli-American to start an MLB playoff game — while his parents’ country was at war, no less — fellow Jewish player Alex Bregman drew a star of David on his Houston Astros hat for his own...
(JTA) — In an unprecedented show of support for Israel, a number of professional athletes and sports teams issued statements about Hamas’ invasion of the country, which has left over 900 dead.
“The NBA and [the NBA Players’ Association] mourn...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 5, 2023
Exactly four months after my bar mitzvah, my dad took me to see the Cardinals lose to the San Francisco Giants in the final game played at Sportsman’s Park.
It was May 8, 1966, a sunny Thursday afternoon, and I witnessed Willie Mays hit a home run...
(JTA) — A hockey player at the University of Michigan has been removed from the team after being implicated, along with another varsity athlete, in an incident of anti-LGBTQ vandalism outside a campus Jewish center.
The announcement last week...
(JTA) — A high school football coach in suburban Cleveland has resigned after his team used the word “Nazi” in addition to racial slurs in its play calling during a game on Friday against a team in a heavily Jewish town.
Tim McFarland, the coach...
(JTA) — For Jews and baseball fans, this is one of the most important weekends of the year.
Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, begins Sunday evening. That day will also kick off the final week of the MLB regular season, when the fight to make the...
(JTA) – The new CEO of the athletic wear giant Adidas said he doesn’t believe the company’s former collaborator, Kanye West, “meant what he said” when the rapper went on a months-long series of antisemitic tirades that cost him the company’s...
(JTA) — Chelsea Football Club has launched a group for Jewish fans, becoming the second English Premier League team to do so this year.
The storied London-based club announced its new Jewish supporters group on Friday, timing the launch to Rosh Hashanah,...
(JTA) — Sandy Koufax’s decision to sit out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur is well-documented. But in a lesser-known dramatic tale just over 30 years earlier, fellow Jewish Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg faced a dilemma...
(JTA) — The Boston Red Sox fired Chaim Bloom on Thursday, ending the Shabbat-observant baseball executive’s nearly four-year tenure as the team’s chief baseball officer.
Bloom, who also keeps kosher, was seen as a wunderkind with his previous...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 11, 2023
Before Ben Hochman, the award-winning (and Jewish) St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist, ever penned a word about the Cardinals or the Blues, he was a budding creator of musical theater.
“It was my senior year, 1998 at Clayton High School and...
