(JTA) — Former Yeshiva University basketball star Ryan Turell took a major step on Saturday toward realizing his dream of becoming the first Orthodox Jew to play in the NBA.
Turell was drafted 27th overall by the Motor City Cruise, the Detroit...
(JTA) — Jewish sports fans, regardless of sport or team preference, share one universal experience: discovering new players and immediately wondering, “Are they Jewish?”
For decades, two men have provided the answers.
Since 1997, Ephraim...
(JTA) — For the first time, players currently on Major League Baseball rosters are joining Team Israel in next year’s World Baseball Classic — and there could be a lot of them.
As many as 12 current Major Leaguers could be playing for Israel...
Jordan Palmer and Evelyn Frick
• Published October 13, 2022
With the St. Louis Cardinals’ season over, it’s time for sports fans to focus on other sports. The St. Louis Blues, and the rest of the NHL are gearing up for a new season, in fact, the first puck dropped on Friday, ironically in Prague. That game...
Coach Ron Zetcher, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published October 10, 2022
I’ll get to the point. Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt are Cardinals treasures. The ignorant comments by some that they caused our two-game loss needs to be addressed.
Both of these men are great MLB players and exemplary citizens. Hitting...
(Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston via JTA) — If the Astros make it to the World Series later this month, fans can thank team manager Dusty Baker — along with a fresh baked challah and several quarts of matzah ball soup.
Baker stopped by Kenny &...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 3, 2022
On Feb. 9, 1966, St. Louis was awarded a National Hockey League franchise for an expansion team that didn’t even have an owner lined up. That void was soon filled by the late Sidney Salomon Jr. and his son Sid Salomon III, who came forward to purchase...
By Frederic J. Frommer, The Forward
• Published October 3, 2022
Jewish fans have long celebrated Sandy Koufax’s decision to sit out the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. But mostly forgotten to history is that the next year, when Koufax stayed away from the ballpark on his scheduled...
By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
• Published September 21, 2022
Babe Ruth is remembered for his home runs on the field and his hot dog binges and other peccadilloes off the field. But as the American public is about to discover, there was another Babe Ruth—one who went to bat for women and minorities, including...
(JTA) — Robert Sarver, the Jewish owner of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, announced Wednesday that he will seek buyers for the two franchises as he serves his one-year suspension for misconduct.
Sarver, a real estate businessman...
(JTA) — Frank Saraceno has worked for ESPN since 1994 and has produced hour-long documentaries on some of the biggest stars in sports for the cable channel’s Emmy Award-winning “E:60” series.
But he thinks working on the episode airing Tuesday...
