(JTA) — All but one of the family members of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics are planning to boycott a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the incident, calling the financial compensation that the German government...
Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published August 11, 2022
A trip to all 30 MLB stadiums is one of America’s favorite travel quests. It’s definitely the holy grail for any baseball fan. Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham is only a few ballparks short of the goal. When he’s not performing rabbinical duties at Congregation...
(JTA) — Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along with their hallowed status in the greater American Jewish history books. But they were far from the only Jewish ballplayers...
Adam Reinherz, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
• Published August 11, 2022
A dream that began on the Little League fields of western Pennsylvania took one step closer to reality on July 18 when Tanner Jacobson, a 2018 Pittsburgh Allderdice High School graduate, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Jacobson is...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 11, 2022
There’s a song kids sing at Jewish summer camp with the lyrics, “Wherever you go, there’s always someone Jewish.”
My husband and I lived that last week when we traveled to San Diego, where both kids played in the JCC Maccabi Games. Of course,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 10, 2022
10 days ago, when I learned that St. Louis Cardinals centerfielder Harrison Bader had committed to play for Team Israel in next year's World Baseball Classic, I was so excited. First, we learned that we had another Jewish connection to a member of the...
Louis Keene, The Forward
• Published August 7, 2022
For fans of the NBA, getting a peek of players honing their craft has become a cherished offseason treat. But there’s been an extra surprise lately for fans who read right-to-left: several pros — including a few of the league’s best — have been...
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Thank you to all who reached out with examples of Jewish sports parent-child combos. There are, of course, countless...
(JTA) — In the pantheon of beloved sports broadcasters, Vin Scully stands alone.
The legendary voice of the Dodgers, who died Tuesday at 94, helped generations of fans fall in love with baseball, from his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Fifty years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 members of the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympics, German handball player Klaus Langhoff, who was right across the street, recalls the horrific events.
(JTA) — NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, a Turkish Muslim known for his off-court activism, is in Israel to host an interfaith basketball clinic.
The 11-year veteran is running the Enes Kanter Freedom Unity Basketball Camp at the Jerusalem YMCA July...
By Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published August 1, 2022
Bill Russell, the legendary Boston Celtics center who died July 31 at age 88, identified his professional accomplishments as cohering with the inner qualities of his Brooklyn-born Jewish coach, Red Auerbach.
Both Russell and Auerbach were feared...
